On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Jason Tackaberry <t...@urandom.ca> wrote: > Hi Evan, > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 22:55 -0600, Evan Hisey wrote: >> most people. But suddenly needing to upgrade the whole system will put >> people off about the move to 2.x > > It's inevitable we are going to leave behind some people with the 2.x > architecture. We've accepted that already. The survey should hopefully > help us determine how many will be affected, and how badly. > > On the other hand, it may not be as bad as you think. If you have a > video chipset that does hardware accelerated GL, you'll be ok. If you > don't, but you have a free PCI, AGP, or PCI-e slot, such a card can be > gotten for cheap ($40 USD or less) and there are fanless and/or low > profile options too. > > If you have no free slot and your onboard video chipset cannot do > hardware accelerated GL, this is probably the worst case scenario. You > almost certainly won't be able to run Freevo 2. However, Freevo 2 is > not ready yet, and Freevo 1 I imagine will be maintained for some time > still while Freevo 2 lags on the feature set. (Depends on what Duncan > wants to do.) So you might well get another couple years out of the > unupgradable hardware yet. > Ah good. There was so much talk about dual cores and 1080i in the parent thread that exactly what was changing for basic Freevo operation got lost.
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