[mythtv-gta]: Re:eee box available: HTPC?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:21:57PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> My take on this....
> 
> I would gather that the above CPU runs at 1.60 GHz. Now Pentium 4 CPUs
> below about 3 GHz are considered iffy for HD playback. Unless the Atom
> CPU offers far higher performance than the clock speed implies I would
> be worried. Further, the sort of gold standard for graphics under
> Linux still seems to nVidia, not sure how well the Intel graphics
> would stand up under MythTV's abuse... Bottom line, while this box is
> interesting on multiple levels, small, and low power consumption, I
> would want someone else to play test subject with this box...

Anything short of a cyrix offers more performance per clock than a
pentium 4. :)

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