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Hardware suggestions? - x_merlin_x - 2010-01-15 Hello everybody, since discovering xbmc a week ago I am hocked! 1 Trillion Kudos for you developers! Thank you! Now I would like to give my xbmc installation a decent platform to run and build an always on standby media station. I tried an old notebook with intel pentium m 1730, but this seems not to be good enough to run 720p. Unfortunatelly. Now I am looking into nettops with atom 320 and ion. I would like to be able to connect to a beamer over hdmi and to a touch screen display through dvi. Unfortunatelly I have not found a nettop that meets following requirements: - intel atom 320 or better - ion - NO optical drive - hdmi output - dvi output - min 4 usb ports - price around 250 Euro Do you guys have a good suggestion? I want to play 720p or even better true hd to be future proof :-) I looked into revo, but that one unfortunatelly has only vga and hdmi, like most others. Another thing is, that I currently only have a 5.1 receiver without decoder. Looks like I have to upgrade that one, too. Right? Thank you for any help. Merlin - prae5 - 2010-01-15 iirc the zotac ion mobo's have vga, hdmi and dvi out. - x_merlin_x - 2010-01-15 you are right. Unfortunatelly their nettop does not. I am looking for a ready to install system. Any other suggestions? - prae5 - 2010-01-15 Not aware of any that have both hdmi and dvi. Why don't you use hdmi and a vga to dvi adaptor? - SleepyP - 2010-01-15 yeah most no longer include DVI since you don't really "need" it on an HTPC 90% of the time and an adapter is like $2. - x_merlin_x - 2010-01-15 do you believe you can make a dvi signal out of a vga signal? Does not sound plausible to me. I found 2 nice ones, fairly unknown but seam to be great! http://www.openpc24.de/-Mini-PC-Mini-PC-kompakt-Atom-330-ION-Chipset-mit-WLAN/a-2/ http://www.openpc24.de/-Mini-PC-Mini-PC-Atom330-ION-Chipset-mit-JCP-MI-103-BS/a-5/ What do guys think about those? - prae5 - 2010-01-15 DVI passess both analogue and digital signals and adaptors and cables for it are common place and cheap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_nkw=dvi+to+vga&_sacat=See-All-Categories - akg4y - 2010-01-15 Not entirely true, DVI can pass digital, analog, or both I believe. Most are only digital at this point. - x_merlin_x - 2010-01-15 so what is the reason anyway to come up with different connectors? I believe you can pass a vga signal through a vga connector, but not a dvi through vga. Otherwise it would not have made sense to introduce new connectors. Right? |