<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000'><br>----- "Yan Seiner" <yan@seiner.com> wrote:
<br>> <br>> On Thu, March 26, 2009 8:52 am, Jarett Creason wrote:<br>> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Yan Seiner <yan@seiner.com> wrote:<br>> >><br>> >> I have a car-puter that has a myth be/fe on it. It's not used for<br>> >> recording at all - no tuners.<br>> >><br>> >> It's an energy sucking hog. This is a problem since it kills the<br>> >> batteries in short order.<br>> >><br>> >> Is anyone using an energy efficient car-puter with myth? Mostly for<br>> >> movies; HD would be nice but not necessary. The slowest, least energy<br>> >> hungry CPU out there. An ARM box would be nice.<br>> >><br>> >> --Yan<br>> >><br>> >><br>> ><br>> > You could check out the fit-PC2 that is supposed to come out next<br>> > month. It is small, it supposedly will play 1080p HD and has a<br>> > reported power draw of 6W.<br>> ><br>> > http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page<br>> ><br>> > Power Consumption<br>> ><br>> > * 6W at low CPU load<br>> > * <7W at 1080p H.264 playback<br>> > * 8W at full CPU load<br>> > * <1W at standby<br>> ><br>> > Looks pretty cool... but I have no first hand experience with it.<br>> ><br>> <br>> <br>> That looks very sweeeeeet!<br>> <br>> and at $299 it's a pretty strong competitor to a mini-ITX, which I've<br>> always considered horribly overpriced...<br>> <br>> Thanks!<br>> <br><br>Will this thing do hardware decoded h.264 under Linux? I couldn't find an answer on the web site.<br><br></div></body></html>