[143701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ryanczak)
Mon Aug 15 07:20:58 2011
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:19:33 -0400
From: Matt Ryanczak <ryanczak@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <b9ffc3a5-b9e6-4ac1-84b7-ad9d15bd2f58@email.android.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/13/11 4:01 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> Anyone got experience with XBMC and similar linux media centre tools running on tablet or netbook class hardware? I like the idea of using a couple of el cheapo Android tablets with decent external speakers as music/video/TV/phone terminals, getting content from a NAS box and perhaps phone from a * server.
>
> Roku etc. are far, far too expensive for what they do.
I run a couple of xbmc instances using atom based nvidia ION systems.
There are a couple of netbook|top class systems that sport these
chipsets for a decent price but I don't know that they are as cheap as a
roku can be had for.
