On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Ritesh Sinha <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Sorry to reply to my own post, but if you're looking for a nice >> "nettop" type of system, I would recommend that you get one with an >> nvidia ION chipset. This will allow you to play HD video (and provide >> video video acceleration via VDPAU). One model is the Acer Revo which >> I had for a while. > > What exactly are net tops > New buzzword actually. They're ideally PCs that have a small form factor and can be connected to a large display or HDTV to provide entertainment capabilities (apart from the usual stuff).
> actually i am looking for a low cost / low power regular computing > solution. The problems with netbooks are that they over time will get > tiring , if some one wants to use it for a few hours a day. > > My understanding it that these desktop pc's are both low cost and low > power but still retain the capability of pretty impressive computing - > office apps, multimedia etc, apart from net connectivity. > > But the specs don't mention what is missing - say does it have an > optical drive or not etc. Nor the power configuration - it would be > ideal and amzing if it could run of 12 volt DC > Not sure about whether it could run on 12V, but the idle power usage on Atom boards is in the range of 50 W or so. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48431&highlight=atom > regards > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- Sent using the magic of the interwebs -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
