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Video becomes public at 12am here in Aus, ~.~

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G'day nick!

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Hey, LTT Crew, do you have a guess why it was dropping so many frames? Was it the H.264 decoder or possibly because it doesn't have gigabit ethernet?

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Yay.. now what will be needed to eliminate frame lose?? better processor maybe?

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This might just be the media center PC I've been looking for. 

 

But as said

 

Pricing links have no results so maybe someone can post the price of it

 

Where can I buy it and how much does it cost?

 

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http://www.geek.com/chips/zotacs-199-zbox-pico-mini-pc-fits-in-your-pocket-1602965/

 

Found this article on geek.com

Price is listed at $199 USD

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Linus said he installed 3DMark but we never got any results other than load temperature

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Linus said he installed 3DMark but we never got any results other than load temperature

 I think the scores are not necessary. Come on, it has 2 Gigs of RAM a Single Core Atom CPU and onboard graphics. It is not a powerhouse, but it can handle 1080p playback. 

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once amazon or ncix has these listed i think i might buy one depending on the price

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Huh, might buy it and slap XBMC on it to watch movies and stuff from the NAS on the TV. Do ya'll know if it supports 5.1 surround out of that HDMI port?

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What are the physical dimensions of this thing?

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About as perfect as it gets for anyone that doesn't game, NAS somewhere and bam, media center.

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Could be pretty competitive with the low-end NUCs. I mean even the low end ones have better specs (Gigabit LAN, USB 3) and if you ignore the fact that they don't have windows (Linux?) then they're about the same price. The key difference is that this thing is passively cooled and comes with a copy of windows. If it wasn't for that then I'd say that a low end NUC would beat it hands down. You can get a NUC with a Celeron, chuck 4GB Ram in it and drop in a 60GB SSD and you're only at ~$250AU. Throw Ubuntu on it, download Steam and you're done.

 

So for a Steam streaming box? eh. Maybe. I still think the NUC will do a better job. For a "Mum wants a PC with windows". Well it has windows at that price. Can't really compete.

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A $35 Raspberry Pi can also be used as a media PC or NAS instead.

I never thought of this before. I think I'll have to really think about this idea.

If all I want to do is stream videos from my NAS to my TV, over a wired LAN, then maybe this really is all I need.

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Hey, LTT Crew, do you have a guess why it was dropping so many frames? Was it the H.264 decoder or possibly because it doesn't have gigabit ethernet?

 

The video shows it was streaming up to 16 Mbit/s, so it should not have been hitting the limits of a 100 Mbit/s wired connection.

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I never thought of this before. I think I'll have to really think about this idea.

If all I want to do is stream videos from my NAS to my TV, over a wired LAN, then maybe this really is all I need.

 

 

Dunno about streaming but I have a B model with openelec and it plays hd stuff pretty well from usb. :)

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I never thought of this before. I think I'll have to really think about this idea.

If all I want to do is stream videos from my NAS to my TV, over a wired LAN, then maybe this really is all I need.

I have a pc running plex, installed plex on the TV, there you go stream to tv is set up at literally 0 additional cost.

This is using a Samsung Smart TV of some sorts, keep that in mind.

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i was really hoping to see some performace results from this thing as well..

 

was thinking it could make a great box for XBMC or PS3 Media server and other video streaming apps as well as hosting mumble server and stuff :(

 

Benchmark it and test it! put it though some paces Linus! 

 

 

focus on multiple people streaming and "encoding" at the same time :D

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That's really cool, and I've never been interested in these tiny PCs before..

 

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What's driver support like on linux? If the wifi/bluetooth is intel, everything should just work.

 

The pricing of this thing would be even better if you can get a mail-in windows refund.

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