[mythtv-users] The $99 frontend is here. Is this too good to be true?

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:01:27PM +0000, James Stembridge wrote:
>> 2009/2/4 Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>:
>> > PCI nvidia card), but IMO the SD ship has sailed-- I'd rather get an
>> > Atom board and get more power, smaller form factor, and drastically
>> > reduced power consumption.
>>
>> Are any of the Atom processors actually more powerful than a 1.8ghz pentium-m?
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> And more to the point, can atoms reliably play HD to 1080 lines?   Can they
> play 1080 line h264 encodes?  Even my 3ghz P4 can't always do that.
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The point of the ION Atom boards is that the GPU will be doing the
work (which, by the way, it does with aplomb).

Robert