98 Guy wrote in :

Go and find a mini-ITX motherboard that has an HDMI port (or at least a
DVI port) and SATA controller and is well regarded in HTPC circles as
being acceptible for hi-def video playback.



NO. You go and find it. Anmd stop moving the goalposts. Stop inventinmg
brainless quests to satisfy your wish for denial. Lee was not posting about
computers that do SATA and ultrafast HD video and HDMI. Stop talking like a
glossy tech magazine and get your eyes off the prize, and onto the ball. Lee
was previously talkign about having been given 286's and 386's. Now why would
that have been ANY part of his context if he wants the stuff you're now
talking about. Context is everything, but you only seem to invent it to make
impossible cases on a hypothetical basis. As soon as I nail that context
based on Lee's original points, what do you do? Spiral outwards like a
lunatic.