XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID 97
reborn writes "Someone's got XBMC running on one of those MIDs. This one is a Compal Jax10. It runs Linux and is powered by an Intel Atom processor clocked at 800Mhz along with Intel's GMA500, which is basically a licensed PowerVR SGX GPU. Except for the better GPU (and its screen and keyboard, of course), it is similarly specced as some of the lower-end netbooks. XBMC would make a great portable media player, given its ability to play media off the network and virtually all file formats, but in the end it depends on the price-point of these MIDs. Here's the video."
It can't do HD.Fail. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I don't get it (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:It can't do HD.Fail. (Score:2, Insightful)
You miss the point. SD on an 8-inch screen or whatever will be every bit as crisp and beautiful as HD on your home television set, if not far, far more so. It's overkill.
Re:It can't do HD.Fail. (Score:3, Insightful)
It's also non news.
I had XBMC running under ubuntu on my Acer aspire one already.
it's just not impressive to see someone get a Intel based program port running on a intel processor.