[mythtv-users] Intel Compute Stick as a frontend?

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:59 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:06:37AM -0400, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8/5/2015 11:35 AM, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 8/5/2015 5:25 AM, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
>
> [deletia]
>
> > > Zotac ZBOX-ID11-U -
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173005
> > > Zotac ZBOX-ID40-U -
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173015
> > > Zotac ZBOX-ID41-U -
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173032
> > > Zotac ZBOX-ID84-U -
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173049
> > > Zotac ZBOX-ID80-U -
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173034
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-Celeron-DDR3L-1600-Windows-ZBOX-BI320-U-W2/dp/B00M2UKY1Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1438800156&sr=1-1&keywords=Zotac+ZBOX
> > >
> > > But this says Intel HD graphics which won't be Ion graphics so maybe
> not
> > > the same thing.
> > >
> > >
>
> > >
> > >
> > You are correct. This is not the same thing. AFAIK, all of the Zotac ION
> > graphics models are now discontinued. I think this a general trend. ION
> > based frontends are harder and harder to come by every day.
>
>    Is that nvidia in general or just ION in particular. I know that Zotac
> had some more advanced nvidia based machines that were neither ION or ION2.
> They had newer GPUs than that.
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This is what I understand, but may not be exactly correct. The ION
computers included a complete Nvidia chipset with integrated GPU and Intel
CPU. The Nvidia/Intel agreement expired, Intel licensing rules changed for
newer CPUs, or something like that happened. This prohibited Nvidia from
continuing to produce ION based systems, and essentially killed any low
powered integrated Nvidia based frontends. Intel most likely did this to
push their own chipsets with integrated graphics and compete with
integrated AMD/ATI solutions.

-Tom
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