[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p
Scott Knight
scott at scottknight.com
Mon Oct 8 22:05:33 UTC 2012
on 10/8/2012 5:46 PM Douglas Wagner carved the following into a picnic
table:
> Any reason no one has mentioned the MacMini? They're quiet, have
> built in bluetooth/wifi, and actually come with an IR remote that will
> function (at least somewhat) within MythTV.
>
> They may be a BIT slow, but self contained, quite and VERY VERY small.
I had a Mac Mini as my first standalone frontend. It was a
Core-somethingorother that I maxxed out with RAM and a T5600 processor,
I think.
I loved it for it's integrated IR and footprint. I hated it for it's
GMA graphics and fan that was way too loud under load. It choked on
content that my first gen ION doesn't even breathe hard displaying.
I felt like I paid quite a lot of money for it when it was nearly two
years old. I felt like someone else paid me too much two years later.
Those things really seem to hold their value :-)
Maybe newer ones are better? They would have to be a LOT better and a
lot cheaper to convince me to give up my ION systems.
Scott
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