Silicon Mountain Allio Lite LCD HDTV PC & DVD Combos [Dual Core Atom 330 PC TVs]

Back in November of last year we covered Silicon Mountain’s new Allio HDTV PC units and now, just three months down the line, Silicon Mountain have updated the range in employing a 1.6GHz Dual Core Atom 330 CPU as opposed to the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU utilised in the aforementioned HDTC PC models.

Billed as a ‘low-cost converged multimedia experience that brings a whole new generation in HDTV and internet entertainment to the living room’, the new Silicon Mountain Allio Lite LCD HDTV PCs, which appear indistinguishable from the previously released Intel Core 2 Duo powered units, come in 32″ and 42″ flavours offering 1080p and 720p HD resolutions respectively and retain the same 250GB integrated hard drives and 2GB RAM as their predecessors whilst also packing in a DVD/CD reader/writer – though it does seem, perhaps, a little short-sighted for the company no to appear to be offering a Blu-ray equipped Allio Lite (we assume its to keep costs down as much as possible, but an option would have been welcomed).

Running Windows Vista Home Premium, the new Silicon Mountain Allio Lite HDTV PCs, which have just become available directly from the official aqllioTV site as well as Amazon (linked below), TigerDirect and Visionman will set you back just shy of $1600 and $1300 for the 1080p 42″ and 720p 32″ units respectively.

[Amazon]