[wellylug] Asus Eee pc and Xandros
Bruce Hoult
bruce at hoult.org
Mon Nov 12 16:10:46 NZDT 2007
On Nov 12, 2007 3:39 PM, Alex Thomson
<alex.thomson at solnetsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Bruce Hoult wrote:
> > On Nov 12, 2007 3:06 PM, Alex Thomson
> > <alex.thomson at solnetsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> I was thinking this might be handy connected to the home theater system
> >> for serving up mp3s/divx's ... deal-breaker for me is the lack of optical drive
> >> ... Anybody know how well it copes decoding divxs perchance?
> >>
> >
> > Why bother when you can get something that plays mp3 and divx off
> > CDs/DVDs/several kinds of memory cards, and USB drives for $80 from
> > the supermarket? Oh, and regular CDs and DVDs too, as a bonus :-)
> >
> >
> >
> Would be nice to replace my "good" laptop currently doing this with a
> $80 DVD player from Pack & Save, but they generally have godawful UIs,
> composite video, 2-ch analog sound and no network support (let alone
> wireless).
The AppleTV has none of those faults and is $100 cheaper than the Eee
PC in the 40 GB version. Doesn't come with a divx codec, but is happy
if you drop a standard quicktime one into the appropriate directory on
the disk.
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