On 28 April 2014 13:35, hannah commodore <hannah@tinfoilhat.net> wrote:

On 26 Apr 2014, at 17:32, Robin Humble <rjh+luv@cita.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> BTW I'd be interested in the lowest power full linux installs that people
> have running their tv's... eg. an (overkill) i7-2620M 35W TDP laptop is
> about 14W @ the wall when idle and about 2W more when playing video.
> it'd be nice to get that lower.

I've been using the CuBox from Solid Run for an XBMC player - No inbuilt
optical drive, but it has USB and could easily use one external. My media
is served via NFS

http://www.solid-run.com/
http://cubox-i.com/

Wow! that's neat.  What version do you have, what OS are you running and any negatives?  Presumably you use it as a player/renderer only i.e. no recording of say live TV?


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