[mythtv-users] NVidia ION - Atom plus 9400M graphics on a box smaller than a toaster

scram69 scram69 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 21:12:25 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> if you read the above rumor on AppleInsider.com, i believe it also
>> mentions the AppleTV.  i agree the AppleTV would benefit more from the
>> ION than the mac-mini.  dumping extra processing out to the GPU would
>> be great in any case (on the mini), but downgrading the CPU would
>> restrict it somewhat as a general purpose machine.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Close
>
> ..And that would be Apple's exact reason for doing it. They want their
> computers to be their multipurpose machines, and their appliances to
> remain appliances. If it stops Joe User from installing OS X on their
> Apple TV, I think Apple would be all for it.

Well, there are many of us now running OS X on Atoms, single and dual
core.  My dual core atom running 10.5 performs slightly better than my
1.66 CoreDuo mini did.  So if Apple does release an Atom-based
AppleTV, you can be that very quickly they'll be re-purposed to
running full OS X.


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