Jetway Mini-TOP HBJC600C99-52W-BW - New Ion 2, Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz barebone nettop

DLee00 Wrote:Sorry, I don't have a Zotac to compare, but I will post some feedback on the Jetway after I get it up and running.

Ok great. I'm wondering when this HTPC will be available in Europe.

Thing that bothers me with all these small devices... where does the TV tuner card go

Geeba Wrote:where does the TV tuner card go

USB or HDHomerun

Geeba Wrote:Thing that bothers me with all these small devices... where does the TV tuner card go

You still watch live broadcast TV??!!

That's so last century...

ion_man Wrote:You still watch live broadcast TV??!!

That's so last century...

Yeah some times I do.... mainly Top Gear or the History channel type things... but a 1 stop shop would be good... dare I say it... Windows MC does TV/Recordings and movies music and pictures... but XBMC poohs all over it... if I move from Xbox i want a box under the TV that does the lot really... and it needs reasonable WAF to bag...

Geeba Wrote:Thing that bothers me with all these small devices... where does the TV tuner card go

It goes in the persons computer who's posting the file as a torrent/newsgroup upload an hour after it broadcasts so I can automatically pull it down using showrss.

God bless than person.

DLee00 Wrote:I just ordered one of these from Newegg. It should be here tomorrow.

And and and ? You got it yet?

Geeba Wrote:if I move from Xbox i want a box under the TV that does the lot really... and it needs reasonable WAF to bag...

"Doing a lot"

and

"reasonable WAF"

Are contradictions. Either the box just needs to do XBMC (and therefore you get live TV when the PVR branch hits like the rest of us), or you will club together a technical Frankenstein with a very low WAF.

Give up on it doing a lot and it being simple. Get back to the original purpose- replacing the Xbox with an HD version!

poofyhairguy Wrote:"Doing a lot"

and

"reasonable WAF"

Are contradictions. Either the box just needs to do XBMC (and therefore you get live TV when the PVR branch hits like the rest of us), or you will club together a technical Frankenstein with a very low WAF.

Give up on it doing a lot and it being simple. Get back to the original purpose- replacing the Xbox with an HD version!

Yep I appreciate that... but I'm still debating running windows7 giving me the one stop shop I want and XBMC for the WAF... but are ION's any good for this... I'd also like to run a couple of games... like Half Life series... would the new Jetway with say 4Gb of RAM and an SSD be upto this? You seem to be pretty good on the ION side of things....

Geeba Wrote:Yep I appreciate that... but I'm still debating running windows7 giving me the one stop shop I want and XBMC for the WAF... but are ION's any good for this... I'd also like to run a couple of games... like Half Life series... would the new Jetway with say 4Gb of RAM and an SSD be upto this? You seem to be pretty good on the ION side of things....

Yep. It would run a Half-Life 2 based game. I play CS:Source on my single core ION netbook.

I don't see too big of a problem running Windows 7 if you want things like games on the side. 4GB of RAM and a SSD would make Windows 7 very happy.

I was just putting forth my belief that any HTPC that doesn't boot from scratch into a single nice interface that is completely controllable by remote (like XBMC and a harmony) doesn't have a high WAF.

But soon XBMC will have a stable release with with the PVR branch making it so that it does almost every needed HTPC function except streaming media (which I think is overrated and I guess you could always hackintosh and use Plex to get that) and gaming....