[mythtv-users] First Nvidia Ion box - Acer Aspire Revo prices revealed

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Glen Sagers <gsagers at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Can't speak for the ION platform, but the Atom's are very capable CPUs.
>  No, they're not as beefy as normal desktop or laptop processors, but I
> have a Dell mini-9, which has an integrated Intel chipset (GMA950) and
> have used it with VMware, to run simple MSOffice tasks in some
> situations where OpenOffice.org wouldn't do.  It's certainly usable,
> didn't feel like it lagged.  There are certainly CPU-intensive tasks it
> won't do well, but for general use, it's great.
>
> In terms of video, I use the mini-9 as a frontend.  It plays back
> standard definition MPEG2 video from any source (Analog pvrX50, DVD), or
> DVDs encoded to XVid AVI at high bitrates with no problem.  It chokes on
> HD video from a HDHomerun, although I haven't experimented to see
> whether there might be some lower resolution shows it can play (since
> not all digital streams are 1080 streams).
>
> Overall, I'm very impressed with the Atom, but it does have some
> limitations.  Hopefully the ION is the perfect pairing for HD video.

Your post is helpful BUT its like saying "I like hard drives, they are
big". There are atoms and there are atoms, some dual core some not.
Hard to tell from the Dell site what is actually in the mini-9