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Yeah, Any day now people are are going to realize that you can plug a 360 into a monitor, add a keyboard and mouse, and with a good web browser have access to a set of office apps (thanks Goggle) and, well... the internet.

The kids will love it because it has all the coolest games, the mums and dads will love it because it's cheap and only needs upgrading every 5 years.

I can only assume Microsoft is not pushing it because of antitrust issues. I imagine people would freak with Microsoft dominating both hardware and software.

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I already do this with an old linux box. You can also watch videos on a real TV rather than a little monitor.

Somebody needs to come out with a good, inexpensive way to interface with it. I have a wireless keyboard with a trackpad, but I don't like it and it was expensive.

Try using one of those Gyration mice. That's what I do anyway.

I thought about that but there are still too many times when I have to do things at the command line like:

mplayer -dvd-device Barbie\ Goes \To \The \Beach/barbie.avi -mouse-movements dvdnav://

Which is kind of inconvenient to do with a mouse. Maybe there's a reasonable way to achieve the same goal (in other words, an alternative to mplayer that doesn't suck) with a gui, but I don't know about it. I'd be willing to crouch in front of the TV with a wired keyboard if it was just for occasional admin work.