[mythtv-users] new lindows $169 PC
Kirby Vandivort
kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu
Fri Aug 29 10:06:04 EDT 2003
So, I'm browsing around this morning and run across a news article..
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&ncid=74&e=1&u=/cmp/20030829/tc_cmp/14100187
about a new $169 PC that lindows.com has released.
I bounce to lindows.com..
http://info.lindows.com/webstation/
and end up finding more information at:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=608176&Sku=N52-1096%20P&Tab=0
and this gets me thinking...
a 1.1 ghz machine.. 256 meg of ram.. a NIC.. a cd drive..
This sounds to me like it has serious possibilites as a diskless
front end for myth..
Problems:
1) video out... either a vga converter, or a old nvidia card in
one of its two PCI slots..
2) the remote.. normal solutions.. either roll your own or buy one. It
could be neat to standardize on a remote (see below)
To make this really rock, one could hopefully assume a relatively standard
configuration, and create a LiveCD for myth..
Hmm.. for probably $200 a complete PC that will do myth. Anyway, just
thinking out loud..
Or, to take this another direction.... PCI slot(s) for the tuner(s),
throw hard drives in, and you've got a backend..
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Kirby Vandivort Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
Email: kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu 3051 Beckman Institute
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois
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