On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Matt Emmott wrote:<br>> Engadget has an article about a promising PC from Via, the vm7700.<br>> It's a small fanless device that looks something like a car stereo<br>> amplifier. It's designed to mount directly to the back of an LCD, but
<br>> it's sch a small design that it could be a great Myth FE, if the specs<br>> are there. It claims to have hardware video acceleration via Via's<br>> Unichrome Pro II architecture. There's no mention of price unfortunately.
<br>><br>> Links:<br>> Engadget:<br>> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/vias-vm7700-bolt-on-vesa-pc-the-modern-prometheus/">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/vias-vm7700-bolt-on-vesa-pc-the-modern-prometheus/
</a><br>> Technovoyance (with video):<br>> <a href="http://www.technovoyance.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38">http://www.technovoyance.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38
</a><br>> <<a href="http://www.technovoyance.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38">http://www.technovoyance.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38</a>><br>><br>> Via's product page:
<a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/vm7700/">http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/vm7700/</a><br>><br>> What's everybody think?<br><br>My only issue with it would be with regard to playing HD video. We (my
<br>family) are recording and playing more and more HD content which is<br>heavily CPU dependent. It does mention "Hardware-based MPEG-2/4 ..<br>acceleration" which might be the answer, though. :)<br><br>If it could do HD, it would make a great frontend. Of course, the price
<br>factor comes in to play, like you said..<br><br>-Rich</blockquote><div><br><br>It looks a lot like the FIIRE boxes that are advertised for LinuxMCE...<br><br><a href="http://fiire.com/fiire-station.php">http://fiire.com/fiire-station.php
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