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THE AIOS EXTERIOR

The remote control bundled with the aios is quite large, has large buttons placed where they should be but just like with 90% of the remotes we find with media players it lacks illumination for the buttons.

Thanks to the brushed dark aluminum body (front and back excluded) the aios HD media center is an elegant and quite small unit measuring just 190mm in width, 175mm in depth and 70mm in height while weighing 900g (without an internal HDD).

Pivos has placed he aios logo at the far left of the front fascia.

A very small VFW screen is present at the center of the front fascia right next to the IR receiver.

The On/Off touch button is quite large and features blue illumination when the device is turned on.

At the left side the aios features a convenient card reader compatible with MMC/SDHC/MSPro cards.

A USB 2.0 port is present at the right side.

At the right side we also see the 3.5" hot-swap HDD bay.

No complaint from me when it comes to available connectors since the rear is filled with them.

So from left to right we see a 40mm exhaust fan, component connectors, A/V connectors, optical and coaxial digital audio outputs, Gigabit Ethernet, 2 USB 2.0 ports, HDMI 1.3, USB 3.0 host port, on/off power switch and the DC input.

The aios HD media center sits ontop of 4 round plastic feet which you can remove if you want (all 4 are attached onto the main chassis with screws).