[mythtvnz] Has anyone seen the new Zotac units?

[Brett Miller]

It could be real...

http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=100033&lang=en

The CPU bus architecture looks same as the i5 (P55 chipset).
The GPU looks to have feature set "C" so should be very good & do vdpau 
hq scaling as well.



On 19/04/2010 9:25 a.m., Ross and Jemima Knudsen wrote:
> On 18 April 2010 17:31, Nick Rout<nick.rout at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>> They look nice. I wouldn't call it a thin client, more a small PC like a revo.
>>>        
> Fair call, I was just trying to make a distinction from the MBs.  If
> you network boot them they will be more like a thin client than a
> mini-PC.
>
> I think someone mentioned that they would rather have one of the Zotac
> MAG units without the HDD - wish granted.  Now I reckon the only thing
> thats missing is a built in IR/RF sensor
>
>    
>>> As you didn't point to a particular product but mention the Atom 510 I
>>> assume you are talking about the ZOTAC ZBOX HD-ID11 which has
>>> previews here:
>>>
>>> http://www.legitreviews.com/news/7503/
>>> http://www.slashgear.com/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-ion-2-nettop-announced-0276369/
>>>
>>> and google will find you others. From googling it appears to be ION2
>>> which I believe means it's based on an nvidia 2xx series chipset, not
>>> 9400 like the ION1. This means it will be able to accelerate more
>>> codecs, like xvid, as well as mpeg2&  h264 that ION1 can do.
>>>        
> Looks like they haven't really launched the products yet, at least
> from the reviews you posted.  I was just wondering if there was
> performance gains to be had from integrating the GPU on the same chip
> as the CPU.  Maybe the only gain is the space saving?
>
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