Yup, full hardware decode. They say the HD-ID11 was designed *for* XBMC. Dunno if that's true or not -- I've never used XBMC myself, but MythTV has full hardware decode on my HD-ID11.

A system like that looks really good to me for $250 (hey, I bought one!), and can do so much more than the dedicated boxees that retail for $50 less.

And dagnabbit.. I've lost the model name of a very similar unit a buddy showed me -- about $20 cheaper than the Zotac, with a faster Atom (1.8GHz rather than 1.6GHz), extra DIMM slot, but no SPDIF out.

Cheers