[mythtv-users] 2010 Mac Mini?

[jedi]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:16:41PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday, July 22, 2010 07:19:34 pm Nick F wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:25 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Nick F wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> > >> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > >> >>    Interestingly enough, trying to run Hulu Desktop doesn't seem to
> > >> >> cause it to draw a great deal of power despite using up every spare
> > >> >> CPU cycle. Nor does divx decoding.
> > >> > 
> > >> > All the atom freq scaling and power savings functionality is reserved
> > >> > for the netbook-targeted atom. The desktop ones don't do much of
> > >> > anything in the way of power savings, don't do any freq scaling, etc.
> > >> > Because, you know, who wants power savings when you're plugged into
> > >> > the wall all the time? (Intel missed the boat on this one, imo, but
> > >> > maybe they'll wise up eventually).
> > >> 
> > >> Talking about Hulu.  Is anyone successfully playing Hulu / BBC iPlayer
> > >> / flash video on an Atom/ION?  I have a Zotac (330 dual core with ION)
> > >> and it struggles really badly.  Is there a trick to getting flash to
> > > 
> > >     I have tried it on my Asrock 330 boxes and it's pretty unusable.
> > 
> > Yeah - I guess this is the main reason for sticking with a Mac Mini,
> > rather than going the ION/ION2 route.  I have an older mac-mini (CD
> > upgraded to a C2D with intel graphics).  It plays back flash just
> > great, but can't deal with h.264 material and hi-def mpeg2 (running
> > OSX).  And my ION plays back h.264 great, but chokes on flash.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what the minimum CPU spec might be to play back flash glitch-free?

    I have seen reports that the Asrock 330 can be overclocked and that this
will get smooth results with flash/hulu but, my attempts to do this have not
ever succeded. When I turn on overclocking in the asrock BIOS, Ubuntu won't
boot at all. I get a kernel error.

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