[mythtvnz] Zotac ION Motherboard

[Richard (lists)]

Saw them about a month ago on one of the blogs - look good to me but nothing
on availability or pricing other then some absurd UK prices

Ion makes it usable for most things other then flash based video for a
general browsing machine, and it cant be long before adobe sort that out so
that it uses acceleration.

The acer aspire revo is also ion based, but once again despite being
announced is nowhere to be found. Either would be great silent front ends
for myth and also be able to be used as a PC which things like the windows
media extenders are sorely lacking in.



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From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Karl Leaning
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:39 AM
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: [mythtvnz] Zotac ION Motherboard

Spotted this on slashdot this morning and it looks rather yummy

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Zotac-NVIDIA-Ion-Motherboard/

What really looked interesting was the use of an external power brick 
(similar to a laptop brick) and doing DC-DC conversion on the 
motherboard. there is a molex connector on board to provide power for an 
optical drive and a HDD. It uses a dual core 1.6GHz Atom and all up 
looks very tasty.

All we need is a local supplier...