VY wrote: > Hi: > > Does anyone has any experience running Linux on the new Dell Zino line of > PCs? > I want to use it as a media center kind of box. It seems low > cost and even has an HDMI out. > > http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&s=dhs&cs=19&ref=dthp
My first concern would be the state of driver support for video features. It seems to be taking forever for ATI and Intel to get this stuff nailed down. I'm considering a motherboard with an Nvidia ION chipset for a MythTV front end client. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_ion_linux&num=1 These boards use an Atom processor, but with all the heavy lifting offloaded to the Nvidia graphics processor, they have no problem handling HD video. The one downfall that is frequently mentioned is flash. Since there currently is no way to offload flash video to the graphics processor, the Atom has to do the rendering. As you can imagine, this does not work very well for anything high-res. Both Zotac and Asrock make suitable ION motherboards. Here's one that looks promising for my purposes: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500027&cm_re=zotac_ion-_-13-500-027-_-Product I can't believe I'm suggesting something that requires a proprietary driver, but unfortunately the Nvidia ION is currently the best fit for what I want to do. -- Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
