[mythtv-users] Calling all Acer Revo AR1600-U910H users

[Brian Long]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 06:48:40 am Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Can I get it without windows xp installed?
>> >
>> > There are models on eBay available with linux installed but these are
>> > $300+
>> >
>> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ACER-Aspire-R3610-REVO-320G-2G-RAM-Desktop-PC-Linux_W
>> >0QQitemZ380203166479QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDesktop_PCs?hash=item5885dfeb0f#ht_
>> >2756w
>>
>> The above is a dual-core, while the 1600 is single core with "low end"
>> graphics (not really, it is still Nvidia ION).  The trade-off is CPU
>> vs power-consumption, mine idle draws 14w and playing live tv is 18w -
>> not bad, but could be better.
>
> It's the ION "LE", as opposed to the plain old ION, but it still does what I
> need. In fact, I'd guess the LE uses less power than the P/O ION, and if you
> can get what you want with less power things are good.
>
> I'd think the dual-core units would be of interest to people wanting to run a
> combo FE/BE, which the single-core unit would probably struggle with, but that
> would depend on how much transcoding and/or commflagging you might want to do.

I could have sworn the ION LE was just a marketing term used to reduce
cost because it's not M$ DirectX-certified.  AFAIK, the ION and ION LE
are the same chipset.

/Brian/