2009-10-08, 16:35
Hello All,
Since XBMC is open-source and has so many great people working on it, has anyone considered creating a group to create a hardware specific XBMC platform. You know, a bunch of us nerds get together and either put together a bunch of components that will work best with xBMC or design our own board with integrated GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD etc.
Since we know that XBMC now works well with any NVIDIA 8 series GPU and takes away most of the CPU load, we can design a MB with integrated NVIDIA 8200 chipset. Add a small 8GB Flash SSD, 1GB memory with a small Intel Atom processor that requires only a heatsink, integrated power supply and voila you have a tiny XBMC system that should be capable of doing almost anything.
This is just a thought... Any ideas?
And yes I know it's not as simple as I wrote but I'm just looking for some opinions... Anyone?
Since XBMC is open-source and has so many great people working on it, has anyone considered creating a group to create a hardware specific XBMC platform. You know, a bunch of us nerds get together and either put together a bunch of components that will work best with xBMC or design our own board with integrated GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD etc.
Since we know that XBMC now works well with any NVIDIA 8 series GPU and takes away most of the CPU load, we can design a MB with integrated NVIDIA 8200 chipset. Add a small 8GB Flash SSD, 1GB memory with a small Intel Atom processor that requires only a heatsink, integrated power supply and voila you have a tiny XBMC system that should be capable of doing almost anything.
This is just a thought... Any ideas?
And yes I know it's not as simple as I wrote but I'm just looking for some opinions... Anyone?