On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Greg Cope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregcope@gmail.com">gregcope@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/11/8 Richard Morton <<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton@gmail.com">richard.e.morton@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Hi,<br>
>> The Intel Atom processors look interesting, but I've not been able to find much in the way<br>
>> of performance specs. Does anyone know if any of the Atoms are remotely capable of<br>
>> playing HD H.264 AVC?<br>
><br>
> In brief, yes; but make sure you buy a board with VDPAU supported<br>
> chipset like the Zotac boards otherwise the small Atom chips wont cope<br>
> with HD.<br>
><br>
> Try searching gossamer threads as it has been covered quite a few times.<br>
<br>
</div>I've yet to get mine to play HD; but my Revo R3600 (dual core 330<br>
Atom+Ion+1gb+160Gb drive is around £160 delivered in the UK(linux<br>
version)) is nice and cheap. No DVD Drive, but has ESATA which works<br>
ok and they are pretty cheap.<br>
<br>
Quite (you can only hear the fan when you have you ear next to it),<br>
low power; What is not to like?<br>
<br>
I brought it on the assumption that with Nvidia ION it _should_ do HD.<br>
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Greg<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>The Acer Revo R3600 uses an Atom N230 actually not a N330. We have this running well on 0.21 and VDPAU and it handles BBC HD excellently by the way. No optical drive though as you point out.<br>
<br>Andrew<br clear="all"><br><br>