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Comment Re:Cheapest (Score 1) 123

by ZZane on Monday November 02, 2009 @04:45PM (#29954700) Attached to: New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand

There's an open SODIMM slot inside and you can expand to 2 or possibly 3GB (I have 2GB in mine). There also appears to be an open mini-pci slot inside where a wifi card could be installed. Looks like you could pretty easily swap out the HD for a large one as well.

Comment Re:Cheapest (Score 1) 123

by ZZane on Monday November 02, 2009 @04:39PM (#29954628) Attached to: New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand

Acer Aspire Revo. You can pick one up for $200 at Best Buy in store or buy online at Newegg, Amazon, etc.

Specs: Atom 230, nVidia ION LE, 1GB RAM (expandable to 2 or 3), 160GB HD, HDMI & VGA, 6 USB 2.0, 1 eSATA, 1 Gigabit ethernet port, SD slot. Pulls 65 watts max and physical size is 7.1"x7.1"x1.2".

This can play back full 1080p without dropping frames and will run XBMC or Boxee under both Windows and Linux.

I purchased one yesterday and so far I've run XBMC under Linux and Boxee under both Windows and Linux and will be sticking with Boxee running under Ubuntu 9.10. The performance is great and currently the only down side is that flash playback isn't very good but Flash 10.1 will fix that.

Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely 579

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @09:31AM from the they-think-much-the-same dept.

OMNIpotusCOM writes "Noted astrophysicist Stephen Hawking thinks that alien life is likely, albeit primitive, according to a lecture delivered at George Washington University in honor of NASA's 50th anniversary. It begs the question of if we need to consider a Prime Directive before exploring or sending signals too far into the depths of space."

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