Thanks much for the info. I use a Mini-ITX desktop to run Windows Media Center. It's about the size of a toaster. Has a Zotac MB with Atom dual core CPU. That's 1.6Ghz with Nvidia Ion video. Plays Blu-Ray and HDTV smoothly at 1080. I tested a single core Atom computer (FitPC2), but it stuttered just a bit when running at 1080. Did 720 okay. This computer uses less than 1/3rd the power of my quad-core AMD and the video is smoother.
The Fit PC is way cool. It does tent to get too warm in my opinion because of the hard drive. SSD would probably be ideal but is too pricey for me to play with right now. http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page -Dave Walton On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Alex Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Mitch Haley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Are those $299 netbook things any good? > > I love the two netbooks in my house (Dell Vostro and Asus Eee) for web > browsing. They are as fast as anything else with a lightweight Linux > distro (Mint, Puppy, etc.). Forget about serious typing with those > little keyboards, though. > > For the original poster (Dave W.), I'm going to take the contrarian > view from everyone else here and suggest a refurbished IBM Thinkpad. > Beautiful big screen, plenty fast enough, will probably come with XP > Pro installed but they're very Linux-friendly so it shouldn't be a > hassle at all to put Ubuntu on it if you want. Most importantly they > are built like tanks and so are more likely than any new $300 laptop > to survive repeated trips through the mail. > > Alex > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
