[mythtv-users] Dell Zino HD as FE/BE

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Nov 12 14:54:04 UTC 2009


On Thursday 12 November 2009 07:46:20 Cool Frood wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> > On November 12, 2009, Cool Frood wrote:
> >> Just when I was considering an Ion-based machine for an FE/BE, Dell
> >> has thrown the Zino HD in the mix.
> >>
> >> In the lowest configuration you get:
> >>
> >> AMD Athlon™ 2650e (512K L2, 1.6GHz) processor
> >> 2GB RAM
> >> 250 GB HDD
> >> Integrated ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=i
> >>nsp iron-zino-hd&s=dhs&cs=19
> >>
> >> The base configration costs $259. Knock off $100 by choosing Windows
> >> Home Premium instead of Professional.
> >>
> >> Any comments as to how this would compare with the Acer Aspire Revo?
> >> For $60 more, you get 1GB more RAM, a desktop hard drive that is
> >> bigger and a DVD drive.
> >>
> >> Akshat
> >
> > You also lose VPDAU, which means that the CPU has to handle all of your
> > decoding.  If you do HD it may not cut the mustard.
> >
> > You are probably upping your power bill as well.
>
> That's a bummer.  AMD needs to get its act together, which is
> something that we've been saying for years and years now, modulo
> s/AMD/ATI

Maybe the $1.25 Billion they will get from Intel will allow a few more pennies 
for the R&D budget:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/technology/companies/13chip.html?_r=1&hp

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org


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