[mythtv-users] Nvidia Back In A Mini-PC Format?

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Tue Nov 15 19:01:56 UTC 2016



On 11/15/2016 10:54 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com 
> <mailto:t004 at kbocek.com>> wrote:
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>     On 11/15/2016 9:11 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
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>         "the compact PC starts at $699".  Ouch!  But also way overkill.
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>         With the right content[1] and the right GPU, an Atom does just
>         fine.
>           Bought my last two IONs for about $100-120 IIRC.
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>     I agree. As I said, lots of other smaller, cheaper options. But
>     the Nvidia thing made me post this.
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> Looks like the 'base model' doesn't even include Xeon/NVidia:
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> "As for the price, the compact PC starts at $699, which probably gets 
> you an Intel Core i3 configuration without discrete graphics. HP 
> didn't say how much a Xeon/NVIDIA setup will be, but it's likely well 
> over double that."
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> That along with the lack of HDMI makes this pretty much a non-starter 
> for media playback, which, to be fair, isn't the target market.
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>

Yeah, if that price doesn't include Nvidia, that won't work. I can't 
find any ports listing on the HP site but I assume this has DisplayPort. 
Lots of DisplayPort to HDMI converters out there.
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