Is this possible on current hardware?

saitrix · 24 Jan 2010 at 19:20

Hi,

My Dad has said to me when his laptop dies he wants to swap to having a mini-itx pc mounted on the back of his tv. His plan seems to be connect it up via hdmi to the tv (a 1080 tv so high resolution).

Now how possible is this? I instantly thought an atom system but is that powerful enough as a main pc for my parents to use? Their use will include general net usage with a bit of youtube added in and a little photo resizing too. Would an atom 330 ion system provide the power or can you fit a desktop cpu into a smaller case ok?

Also it would have to be done for about the £250-300 area.

saitrix · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:19

How well can the 330 take to multitasking?

Also I have read about overclocking the 330, I suppose I can do this if they need a little more go from it.

saitrix · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:26

Thanks for the info!

Though for the same price I have found the Acer Revo R3610, which has the 330 dual core, 800mhz ddr2 and a 250gb hdd. Amazing what you can get for the money these days.

saitrix · 5 Feb 2010 at 06:42

a1ex2001 said:
Got one at Christmas time and it's pretty much faultless, only gripe is with the included vesa mount it stuck out the top of my tv to much but then thats what you get for only having a 23" tv! Performance wise it's spot on for web browsing with multiple tabs and a bit of iplayer etc.

Sounds spot on. Will be behind a 37" so it will be fully hidden.

errata,

At one time the maximum my Dad will be doing is having outlook open, firefox with multiple tabs and maybe ripping a cd to mp3. Plus I can see him using it for audio playback too.