<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"> On 9/24/2010 19:28, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
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I'm not very familiar with the CE4100 and most searches turned up more articles on the Boxee Box, but I believe I saw on Engadget that it supports VAAPI, which I see is in preliminary support in .24. Wow that was a run-on sentence. Is anybody familiar with this chip and its feasibility with Myth? If it's an Atom then it's x86 code, which should IMHO make it Myth-friendly.<br>
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It's an Atom, and only single core and 1.2GHz at that, so it's a piece of junk performance wise. It's paired with the same PowerVR graphics found in the GMA500, and you're going to be relying on that for anything you might want to do. Assuming you've got clean, error free content, in a codec with settings compatible with the chip, it will work great. If you've got something else, you've got nothing to fall back on, just like any other underpowered system.<br>
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That's assuming this thing has enough memory. I've not see that statistic printed anywhere. 512MB is a bare minimum for a frontend at HD resolutions, 1GB would be better.<div class="im"><br>
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A) What OS is it running<br>
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Windows. Netflix streaming requires Silverlight, which requires Windows. Unless they've signed some deal with Netflix which provides them a custom interface, that's the only option.<br>
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In the end, you just have an ugly, glossy black and green cube-like thing, that doesn't fit in with any of your other equipment. The least they could have done was make it rectangular and thin like the Apple kit, such that it could be strapped onto the back of a TV and forgotten about.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>I have to agree with Raymond here. For not much more you can get a Zotac with a dual core atom, nvidia ion graphics, and you can mount it to the back of your TV. The Boxee Box seems like an overpriced, under powered, piece of equipment. IMHO it's to little to late.</div>
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