Need Boxee/Vista remote control recommendations

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Published on 2010-05-07T14:02:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 14:08 UTC
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I have an Acer Aspire X1200 (specs link below) desktop computer that I've installed Boxee on and it works great. And it looks like it's going to be a perfect computer for a media player. It's small with lots of hard drive space and even has a HDMI output on it.

http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireX1200/AspireX1200sp2.shtml

I also have a Harmony® 880 Advanced Universal Remote (specs link below) that I'd like to use with the Acer computer.

www.logitech.com/en-us/440/372

My thought is that I need to get a USB remote control adapter, right? So I did a quick Google search and found products from $5 to hundreds of $$$. Does anyone have recommendations? Things you like/dislike about certain remotes?

This Acer is running Vista and has a AMD LIVE!: Athlon X2 dual-core processor. 64 bit some times makes it a little more difficult.

Thanks for the help.

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