Tony, I considered getting the HSX but it was too expensive and couldn't do as much as a PC. The machine I have in the previous post is very quiet. If you close the glass door on my stereo cabinet, you cannot hear it. If the glass door is open you still can't hear it unless you are less than 2 feet away from it. And, since it's a PC, I have VNC set up on it so I can get into my network. I even have a webserver running on it with files I commonly need when at other locations.