<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Scott D. Davilla <<a href="mailto:davilla@4pi.com">davilla@4pi.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">>I'm looking for a frontend for my bedroom. Currently I have a laptop<br>>with a processor that is just barely too slow to do HDTV (it starts to<br>>stutter after about 10-15mins of playing back HDTV). I think its a<br>
>Celeron M 1.6GHz with 1GB of RAM and a Intel 910GML graphics card.<br>>Other than the HDTV issue it runs fine, and it plays HDTV fine for<br>>those first 15mins, then it seems to need to "chill" for about<br>
>10-15mins to "cool off" or it just stutters constantly.<br>><br>>So I'm looking to replace it. I'm looking at some laptops that have<br>>Pentium M's, up to 1.8GHz. I know the AppleTV has a 1.0GHz Pentium M<br>
>and seems to do fine with 720p, but not so well with 1080 content, so<br>>I'm wondering if anyone knows what the minimum Pentium M required to<br>>smoothly play back 1080i with deinterlacing enabled is (since I'll be<br>
>connecting it to a LCD monitor).<br><br></div>1.7 GHz Pentium-M or better would do fine if you had and nvidia<br>chipset. I have one here for cross-testing against the 1GHz Pentium-M<br>in the AppleTV. You will need an nvidia display card and not the 8xxx<br>
or 9xxx as these do not have XvMC. A 5xxx, 6xxx or 7xxx will be fine<br>but watch your 6xxx choice as some do not have XvMC.<br><br>Since you have an 910GML video in the Laptop, you are out of luck,<br>maybe a fast Pentium-M without any deinterlacing enabled.<br>
<br>If you don't want to use XvMC, then any Core Duo Mobile will be fine,<br>the lower clock versions run cooler than the Pentium-M. But I don't<br>think you can put a Core Duo Mobile in a Pentium-M socket, you might<br>
check though.</blockquote>
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<div>I don't think this is the case anymore. The Intel page lists the 910GML as a supported chipset and based on the information added to the Wiki recently, Intel is supporting XvMC on all their supported chipsets.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>