[olug] HTPC box

Marc Mapes marcmdm2005 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 04:23:08 UTC 2011


To be honest I just use XBMC for my HTPC

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Carl Lundstedt
<clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>wrote:

> I was  all exited when I read the subject.  To me "THPC" means High
> Throughput Put Computing, ie.  cluster nodes.
>
> Sadness.
>
> Sorry, can't help with what sounds like a media machine.
>
> Carl
>
>> Has anyone looked into building a HTPC box recently?
>>
>> I'm debating the merits of building a cheap, Linux based HTPC box myself
>> versus getting a $180 Logitech Revue Google TV box, a $100 Roku box, or a
>> $200 Boxee box.
>>
>> My initial instinct is to build a box so I can do whatever I want with it,
>> install other apps, emulators, a full browser, etc. It's just that some of
>> the existing dedicated boxes out there are so cheap, it is hard to justify
>> dropping $500 to build my own.
>>
>> -- T. J. Brumfield
>> "I'm questioning my education
>> Rewind and what does it show?
>> Could be, the truth it becomes you
>> I'm a seed, wondering why it grows"
>> -- Pearl Jam, Education
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