Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
The board
Nvidia ION2 GPU with Atom D525 Pineview CPU in an Mini-ITX form factor mainboard (17×17cm)
The memory
2x 2 gb (Dual Channel ) Kingston DDR3 1066MHz ram
The storage
Seagate 2.5″ Momentus XT hybrid 500gb SATA2 HDD
The operating system
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Misc hardware dongles
RT73 Wifi USB stick
USB bluetooth adapter (for use with Wiimote in XBMC)
The objective
Test run the board to run the default Ubuntu system with addon PPA repositories to ensure maximum performance for 1080p media playback using XBMC. Geekbench benchmarks to be used for testing the raw processing power of the D525 coupled with ION2.
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Tags: 10.04, atom, bluetooth, bootchart, Bootspeed, d525, intel, ion, ion2, ITX, mini, mini-itx, nvidia, speed, ubuntu, wifi, wiimote, xbmc
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
XBMC is a free opensource cross platform media player. It has its origins from the first generation XBOX game console, where XBMC was created as a homebrew media player making use of MPlayer sources as one of its cores. XBMC has since evolved with a huge and continuously growing forum with active discussions happening 24/7.
Its flexibility in allowing add-on scripts and user-created skins has also contributed to its popularity. User-contributed skins such as the “Aeon Stark” made it even more popular in the recent months. Video shown after the break.
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Tags: add-ons, aeon, audio, bluetooth, Entertainment, forums, hdmi, homebrew, ion, ITX, LCD, Live CD, LiveCD, lucid, lynx, media, mini, mini-itx, mplayer, nvidia, plasma, player, scripts, skins, stark, ubuntu, vdpau, video, wii, xbmc, xbox
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