[mythtvnz] Zotac ION Motherboard

[David Hawke]

Looks as though there will be flurry of alternatives later in the year - 
ASRock have an interesting box as well (based on the dual core Atom and 
with S/PDIF)

David H

Richard (lists) wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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...
>
>
>
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