[mythtvnz] Laptop recommendation for HD MythTV

[Joel Wiramu Pauling]

VAAPI Works with MythTV on most recent ATI hardware, and has done for
a while now.

I use XBMC as a frontend in these situations to tvheadend (rather than
Myth) - PVR functionality is still no where near Myth... it does the
trick.

Nvidia is still a better bet if you don't want to muck around as much
and trust to proprietary blobs, you will almost certainly need to be
running catalyst drivers (ati's binary blob) anyway... so really you
are not gaining much. If you want a truely FOSS solution (but crappier
performing) you can use any intel core integrated chip from Ironlake
onwards... I have 2 laptops with i965 (ironlake) graphics and VAAPI
support is pretty good now - supporting a few different H264 profiles.

Any of the New A8/A6 integrated APU's from ATI/AMD are very good value
for performance, and there are alot of cheap HTPC's based on either
these or the older E series APU's ... all work pretty well.

-JoelW