[mythtv-users] Trimslice ARM PC

[jedi]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:19:05PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 12/24/2011 19:04, Mark Lord wrote:
> > On 11-12-22 11:40 AM, Tim Draper wrote:
> >> based on the fact an atom is considered too slow for a BE, i'm going
> >> to say that the TrimSlice isnt upto the job.
> > Only the hardware snobs consider Atoms too slow for that.
> > I run an Atom/Ion2 ZBox as a combined BE/FE without issues,
> > as do several people I have cloned the setup for.
> 
> The "hardware snobs" seem to continually fail to get their argument 
> across.  The problem isn't that Atoms can't be used for MythTV.  Any 
> processor that supports the i386 instruction set should be capable of 
> running MythTV (I'm not sure what is required in terms of ARMs).  The 
> argument is that Atoms and ARMs cannot be _recommended_ for use with MythTV.
> 
> There are very real limitations on such hardware in terms of performance 
> and expansion, that makes them unsuitable for many, if not most, MythTV 
> setups.  To an inexperienced user, they would be a bad recommendation 

   An ION makes for a cheap mistake. If it's a ready made ION, then it's
a cheap mistake that didn't require a lot of effort to build either.

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