<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Greg Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@nodecam.com">greg@nodecam.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
With the weakening Canadian dollar, I figured it would only be a matter<br>
of time before Dell adjusted their prices (or at least their offerings<br>
for the Studio Hybrid) so I took the plunge a couple of weeks ago and<br>
ordered one.<br>
<br>
I picked up the then on special 2Ghz Core 2 duo (T5750) model, and it<br>
arrived a day before I had to leave town for a business trip.<br>
<br>
When I got back, I tried installing Gentoo on it for a few days, having<br>
no luck with getting Xorg going at any resolution to my Sharp Aquos<br>
1080p set. I eventually swallowed my pride and tried the gentoo liveCD<br>
with the same results - no X whatsoever.<br>
<br>
In desperation, I thought I'd try Mythbuntu 8.10, just to see if it<br>
would even be able to display anything. Within 30 minutes of having put<br>
the disk in the drive, I had a fully installed fully 1080p, SPDIF<br>
optical outputting HD playing frontend.<br>
<br>
Mythbuntu "just worked" on it, though it didn't detect my existing<br>
backend. After having lived with an xbox frontend for 3+ years, having<br>
a "real" frontend in the livingroom, able to finally playback my<br>
firewire-captured HD is a dream.<br>
<br>
Just thought I'd say thanks to the Mythbuntu folks who may be reading<br>
this, and report success on the little machine. I know I could have<br>
done it cheaper with an appleTV or something, but I don't think I could<br>
have done it any easier.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Great news, I was curious about these things as Myth boxes. With more ram (And some kind of tuner, perhaps external) , could one of these be a combined FE/BE or would the 5400RPM disk be a limiting factor?<br>
<br>What sucks is, these things in Core 2 Duo form were around $380 on <a href="http://delloutlet.com">delloutlet.com</a> a couple weeks ago. I just checked and the cheapest ones are around $560 at the moment. Maybe there was a big sale last time i checked, or maybe it's luck of the draw. <br>
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