[mythtv-users] Energy Efficient Front End

[Yan Seiner]

On Thu, March 26, 2009 8:52 am, Jarett Creason wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a car-puter that has a myth be/fe on it.  It's not used for
>> recording at all - no tuners.
>>
>> It's an energy sucking hog.  This is a problem since it kills the
>> batteries in short order.
>>
>> Is anyone using an energy efficient car-puter with myth?  Mostly for
>> movies; HD would be nice but not necessary.  The slowest, least energy
>> hungry CPU out there.  An ARM box would be nice.
>>
>> --Yan
>>
>>
>
> You could check out the fit-PC2 that is supposed to come out next
> month.  It is small, it supposedly will play 1080p HD and has a
> reported power draw of 6W.
>
> http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> Power Consumption
>
>     * 6W at low CPU load
>     * <7W at 1080p H.264 playback
>     * 8W at full CPU load
>     * <1W at standby
>
> Looks pretty cool...  but I have no first hand experience with it.
>


That looks very sweeeeeet!

and at $299 it's a pretty strong competitor to a mini-ITX, which I've
always considered horribly overpriced...

Thanks!

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