Re: Kitchen PC & Processing power

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The EPIA M series mini ITX machines have hardware mpeg handling. A 933MHz
mini-itx machine
I have handles mpeg2 & mp3 easily. So much so that I had another one
for my kitchen PC.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon McCaughey" <simonmcc@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:46 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Kitchen PC & Processing power


> I have installed a "proof of concept" PC in the kitchen,
using a nice 12" TFT and an old
K6-2-500 PC running WinXP.
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> It is *almost* silent, and SWMBO has given a big thumbs up to having
online banking,
weather, internet radio, and kiddy pics screen saver - so all is great on
that front!
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> I want to upgrade the machine (or buy a new one) The current machine
strains playing
mp3s, and don't even ask it do decode video - I want to know what processor
people are
using for kiosk type applications - what is the minimum I could get away
with?
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> I'm thinking either go ITX, with one of the epia boards, or else small
form factor PIII
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> Any advice welcome :)
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> Simon
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