[mythtv-users] iMac as possible Frontend?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:56 PM, Wade Maxfield wrote:

> Jon wrote:
>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My daughter uses a 17" iMac G5 1.6 GHz. It does standard def  
>>> without a
>>> problem, but stutters on high def. I'm sure it just needs a tiny but
>>> more speed to play back high-def smoothly.
>>>
>>> Off-topic: my dual 2Ghz PowerMacs don't do HD smoothly.
>>>
>>> On-topic,  I spent a fair amout of time with Myth on a 1Ghz G4
>>> iBook. I would *not* recommend it.
>>>
>>> In fact,  considering current market values (of used powerPC
>>> machines), I would not recommend running myth on any processor
>>> other than AMD or Intel.  Some people on this list are happy with
>>> their VIA setups, but I think they are happy because they work at
>>> all, not because of the performance.
>>
>> I have to disagree with this. I run MythFrontend on my 1.33 ghz
>> PowerBook and it works great, even over the Airport Extreme (802.11g)
>> for SD. I can't say anything about HD, as I don't have any yet.
>
> Fair enough to disagree, but a 1GHz G4 iBook is a far different  
> beast to
> a 1.33GHz G4 PowerBook.

I think he was disagreeing with your recommendation to ONLY run Myth  
on Intel or AMD since his PPC experience and may others have been  
sufficient and probably really cheap right now.