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XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID

Posted by timothy on from the to-watch-programs-made-by-other-acronyms dept.

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."

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  1. XBMC, MID, GMA500, SGX GPU... by NinthAgendaDotCom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Jeez, could we get a few more acronyms and buzzwords in this summary please?

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  2. Portable media player features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "XBMC would make a great portable media player, given its ability to play media off the network"

    If I'm in my car, on an airplane, or anywhere else I'd take a portable media player, there is no network from which to play media. This is why portable media players emphasize disk space. Unless you're looking for a portable player for trips to another room of your house, network playback is useless.