I'm on the waiting list on their site, they said 1-2 months. Turns out a lot of people think its a pretty nice product :(
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Robert Martin Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where are you getting the Popcorn Hour from? Looks pretty nice. > > lopaka > > Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Going to be buying the parts for a > new PC next week and I'm pretty > > > psyched as I'm replacing an Athlon system I built 3-4 years ago and > have been upgrading piecemeal. So I've got a 3000+ Athlon 64 running > on an nForce4 mobo. > > After 6 months of research I am still debating over dual core vs quad > core. I'm going to continue using my existing video card as it's > doing just fine and here's the rest of the parts list: > > Mobo - Asus P5K-E/WIFI-AP > PSU - OCZ Stealthstream 600W > RAM - 2x2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 > DVD - Samsung SH-S203B > Fans - 2x Scythe 120mm > > So I'm debating between these two CPUs: > Q6600 Kentsfield (2.4 Ghz, Quadcore, 65nm) > E8400 Wolfsdale (3.0 Ghz, Dualcore, 45nm) > > They are both within $20 in price so really it comes down to other > features. I know that the majority of programs these days don't take > advantage of more than 2 cores (except for the multimedia big boys > like Photoshop and video encoders). While I will be using the machine > for some A/V work, that won't be a common task. More commonly it will > be for multitasking several programs at once under Windows XP for work > and then gaming. > > The kicker is that I am getting rid of my HTPC and replacing it with a > NAS and the Popcorn Hour settop box. The HTPC used to be my ripping, > encoding, burning, and downloading box which was nice because I could > offload those intensive (both time and horsepower) tasks to it and not > have it slow down my main PC that I use for work and gaming. With it > going away, those tasks will now be done on my main PC. I was > envisioning perhaps running 2 or 3 VMs at once doing all these various > tasks. Anyone see problems with that under XP and the ability for > those VMs to use separate CPUs and RAM? Or am I reaching too far and > is this something I can't do under XP? I have several work programs > that are Windows only (along with games) which are the two reasons I > haven't gone to Ubuntu. > > ---- > Brian > >
