[mythtv-users] $299 Dell Inspiron Zino MythTV Frontend?

[Brian Wood]

On Friday, November 19, 2010 06:57:33 am Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Patrick Davila 
<pdavila at thelinuxlink.net>wrote:
> > http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-zino-hd-410/pd?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=
> > dhs&~ck=mn&dgc=BA&cid=61076&lid=1535988<http://www.dell.com/us/p/in
> > spiron-zino-hd-410/pd?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&%7Eck=mn&dgc=BA&cid=610
> > 76&lid=1535988>
> > 
> > Looks to be decent considering it comes with a blu-ray drive.
> > What's the word on the ATI HD4250 graphics card and Linux?
> 
> The $299 model does not include Blu-Ray.  Might stil be a decent Revo
> alternative if the ATI graphics can deliver.

AFAIK it can't, at least no VDPAU.

It does appear to have enough CPU grunt to decode in software, but 
that's so 2010.

It does have a slot for a CrystalHD, perhaps useful as support matures.

An obvious "Mini Killer". 

You're paying an extra $100 to lose VDPAU, but sometimes it's nice to 
have some CPU to spare in your frontend.

From the posted comments it appears the BR drive was tossed in as an 
afterthought, without the base device being able to support it. You need 
to spend a lot more than $299 to get BR support. Of course performance 
under Linux might be different.


Sure would be a sweet machine if it had nVidia graphics.