[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Oct 9 02:18:23 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:05:33PM -0400, Scott Knight wrote:
> on 10/8/2012 5:46 PM Douglas Wagner carved the following into a
> picnic table:
> >Any reason no one has mentioned the MacMini?  They're quiet, have
> >built in bluetooth/wifi, and actually come with an IR remote that
> >will function (at least somewhat) within MythTV.
> >
> >They may be a BIT slow, but self contained, quite and VERY VERY small.
> I had a Mac Mini as my first standalone frontend.  It was a
> Core-somethingorother that I maxxed out with RAM and a T5600
> processor, I think.
> 
> I loved it for it's integrated IR and footprint.  I hated it for
> it's GMA graphics and fan that was way too loud under load.  It
> choked on content that my first gen ION doesn't even breathe hard
> displaying.
> 
> I felt like I paid quite a lot of money for it when it was nearly
> two years old.  I felt like someone else paid me too much two years
> later.  Those things really seem to hold their value :-)
> 
> Maybe newer ones are better?  They would have to be a LOT better and
> a lot cheaper to convince me to give up my ION systems.

   They went back to Intel graphics. 

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