Fwd: Re: [mythtv-users] two and one

[Pete Hartman]

>At 01:31 PM 5/13/03 -0700, Cedar wrote:
>>Many people insist on buying pretty expensive hardware for this project. 
>>They come to the list hoping for suggestions for $400-500 dollar 
>>hardware, then say "by the way, I want it to be powerful enough to drop 
>>in a second tuner, be really small, look really good, be quiet, etc etc 
>>etc". People want the impossible.  Instead how about buying a sub 2Ghz 
>>processor, 256 ram, sub 100 gig HD, a cheap software based tuner card, 
>>cheap board like an nforce with built in nic, sound, video, and a 
>>cheap/ugly/loud case. I know you can do that for well under $500.
>
>I'd be really surprised if such a system performed reasonably well, unless 
>it was just barely sub 2Ghz.  I priced my hardware for low end and it 
>wasn't well enough under $500 for me to justify not going ahead and 
>spending the extra money as insurance that when I get it going it will 
>actually function as desired.