a gamepad or a keyboard and mouse). Outside of the ApeXtreme, the Drop & Play technology found use in Alienware's DHS series of media centers. Specifications VIA model At the system's debut at 2004 CES show, the system originally used 1.4 GHz VIA C3 mated to VIA CN400 chipset and DeltaChrome S8 graphics core with 64MB of VRAM as part of VIA's Glory Personal Gaming Console/Eden Embedded System Platform, with six USB ports (four USB 2.0 ports on front, two on rear), and several choices for audio and video connectivity (5.1 channel RCA/optical/coaxial and component/S-Video/composite/DVI, respectively), and a pair of Ethernet and RJ-11 ports for networking, as well as using Windows XP Embedded as the console's operating system. The system sported 256 megabytes of RAM. Internal storage consisted of a either a 20 gigabyte or a 40 gigabyte hard disk drive. AMD model By March 2004, HardOCP reported that Apex Digital had dropped VIA and replaced the CPU with AMD AthlonXP 2000+, mated to NVIDIA's nForce2 IGP and GeForce4 MX graphics card with motherboard manufactured by Biostar. The system had 256 megabytes of RAM. This version of the system sported a 40 gigabyte storage drive. Networking was supported with an ethernet port. 5.1 Dolby Digital audio was supported. See also Infinium Phantom Indrema References Vaporware game consoles Sixth-generation video game consoles X86-based game consoles