[mythtv-users] Suitable laptop/notebook with nVidia out via HDMI?

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 01:55:35 UTC 2016


Hoi Dick,

Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 2:30:50 AM, you wrote:

> I'm starting to think about replacing my old Lenovo M58P with something
> else for my combined MythTV front end and back end. As I was sitting 
> there looking over at the collection of hardware the other day, it 
> occurred to me to wonder about using a somewhat recent laptop or 
> notebook for the job. I see that there are laptops with nVidia video 
> hardware, but my initial reading has shown me that there are gotchas. 
> One of the search results I found was
> http://blog.langfinger.org/?p=203 
> which says, "... Nvidia does not support the Linux platform officially
> yet ..." So I see that it's not as simple as asking if the laptop has 
> HDMI out from an nVidia graphics chip.

> Has anyone tried using a laptop as a MythTV front end and back end machine?

Have you thought about it that the only possible way to add
datastorage is usb!? Not by far optimal even usb3. Frontend should be
OK, but backend...

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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