[clue-tech] Nettops and Netbooks

[Shawn Perry]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:00 AM, ErikZ <erik.zolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From what I've read, the ATOM doesn't have enough horsepower to do
> regular OS stuff and graphics processing. But the unit I linked to
> below also has an nVidia ION graphics processing chip that was
> specifically designed to offload HD graphics processing from the CPU.
> Someone who was using the unit as an HTPC said the CPU never got above
> 20% while playing 1080p. And that's a single core unit.
>
> It requires specific drivers to do this, but they're available in both
> windows and linux.
>
> I don't want to just use it just as a HTPC. I'm looking for a Linux hobby box.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Shawn Perry <redmop924 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:27 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
>>> ErikZ wrote:
>>>> Has anyone tried running any flavor of Ubuntu on a Nettop?
>>>>
>>>> Nettops have the same hardware as Netbooks, but without the built-in
>>>> screen and keyboard.
>>>
>>> One of the comments at newegg says so, using the Ubuntu NBR.  I'd expect it to work fine.
>>>
>>>> I was thinking of putting it on the network and having it run apache,
>>>> mysql, and be a general testbed/sandbox. But I've never used an ATOM processor
>>>> before and I don't know what the limitations/pitfalls for it are.
>>>
>>> Looks like that might be a good DVR box (not sure about the output options so maybe not for me).
>>> But I need a file/imap server.  I was thinking about one of those $100 wall warts but maybe this is
>>> a better value.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> I don't know that the ATOM has the horse power to run a DVR.  They can
>> have trouble with Flash movies like YouTube.
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If it's ION, it should be fine.