On 2006-11-07, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A $99 PC by Christmas?
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>| The real question is if holiday buyers will choose to believe
>| that you get what you pay for.
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If it's small, quiet and doesn't generate heat like a
hotplate then it will make a perfectly suitable media center client.
It doesn't have to be very beefy. Anything over 1Ghz would
do. You can skimp on the main cpu even more if there's any special
media decoding DSP. This is how a Tivo can do what it does.
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