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On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Ken Restivo wrote:

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> > And for what it's worth, you can get micro-ATX boards that take

> > Celerons and Athlons.  I'd stay away from that Via stuff myself if

> > I were doing anything other than a web surfing terminal.

> >

>

> I'd guess that anything capable of DVD and MP4 video recording and

> playback would be plenty good for Linux Audio. In other words, if it

> can run MythTV, why couldn't it run 64studio instead?

Those boards usually have rather serious special hardware particularly

for that purpose, specifically because the CPUs aren't fast enough.

The 1.5+ GHz versions still have that, though they *might* actually

get away without it in theory; don't know... I have one of those

here, but I haven't tried to do any serious DSP or anything on it.

(It's the "integrated dashboard computer" for my sports/race car -

not a multimedia machine. :-)
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