Your TouchSmart Experience??

I'm considering purchasing a TouchSmart PC and would appreciate your experience on some uses:
We presently use Vista Media Center a lot and the family is comfortable using a lot of its features. I understand that TouchSmart provides access to many of the same features.
1. Have you found that using TouchSmart is better than using the native MCE screens?
2. Are there features in MCE that are not available from TouchSmart?
2a. If so, is it easy to access MCE from touchsmart to access the unique MCE features?
2b. Do you find it annoying to switch between TouchSmart and MCE (or other PC functions outside TouchSmart?)
3. Does the TouchSmart calendar provide a way to import calendar information from Outlook?
4. Is the i504 adequate for processing TouchSmart / multitouch / etc., or is the step up to the better processor and graphics of 506 and 800 series necessary?
5. I read in the forum that TouchSmart can't access music (and I therefore assume photos / videos) from network storage. Can it access from a Windows Home Server? from an attached USB drive?
Thanks for any responses!!

yeah, you can basically run Media Center components directly from the command line, for example that link that rasterblaster mentions was something that i have now setup at home...
So for example to load up the TV directly from the command line you run;
C:\Windows\EHOME\EHSHELL.EXE /HOMEPAGE:VideoFullscreen.XML /PUSHSTARTPAGE:TRUE
So you can add this to a Tile and it will be made available as a Tile in Touchsmart.
I found it runs ok when Touchsmart and MC TV are running together, however if you load up another app like a game or maybe Word or something then TV may begin to suffer with jolting picture refreshes - very annoying.
As for music stored on a share, i'm eargerly waiting for this to be made available - i hope they can incorporate WMP library into Touchsmart Music somehow, (as described in the documentation) this way you can optionally use either WMP or Touchsmart without having to maintain both, if they can do this then this would be a major thumbs up for me....
Another thumbs up would be to get the Mic option working or made available in the Touchsmart Notes app, this would be real cool!
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