[mythtv-users] Does anyone have MythTv running on the iPad yet?

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 27 Jan 2010, at 18:42, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> sorry, couldn't resist...
>>>
>>>
>>> It'll run the iPhone version of Myth on it, just with the pixels doubled.
>>
>> You beat me to it.
>>
>> Now I can give up trying to get mythweb to work well enough on my cranky old 200Mhz webpad :-))
>>
>> Andre
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> The iPhone version isn't a real frontend, though. The iPad has some
> newfangled Apple A4 cpu in it. I don't know if it's x86 or ARM based
> or what but I'm sure that will matter when somebody tries to make a
> real frontend for the device. I didn't see mention of the GPU yet.
>
> I guess now's a good time to mention the theory that ARM will outsell
> ION within 3 years:
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/ARMBased-Mobile-PCs-to-Outsell-Intel-Systems-in-2013-ABI-753083/
>
> With the Boxee box running ARM, maybe it's time to revisit the
> ARM-based MytTV port?

What's to revisit?  Myth compiles and runs on the beagleboard.

Robert