I was just looking at my Mini-PC that I use as a MythTV frontend. When I bought it 2.5 years ago I was impressed at how compact it was.
Times change. You can now buy something more powerful, about one quarter of the size and with half the power requirements. Oh, and by the way, there’s a screen included!
I thought it might be good to put a few comparison photo’s up.
The case is a Morex 3688 housing a Via EPIA M10000 motherboard. The ultra mobile PC is a TabletKiosk i7210.
More images in the gallery.
Steve / Chippy
Hi there,
Do you have the specs of your Mini PC? Is it the same as that of UV M100?
thanks.
Kevin
Hi Kevin.
Its a VIA Epia M-10000 motherboard with 256MB RAM. It uses netboot to pull in a minimyth linux image over Ehernet LAN and it boots and runs in RAM. Completely diskless.
All media is mounted via NFS from a server. I have a Myth back-end in a remote location that receives sat and records.
TheUV M100 will probably have a nice big disk (2.5″), more memory and the 3-G card – probably via a PC-Card adapter on the PCI bus although possibly via USB internally.
To be honest, you could build a UV M100 yourself but its quite an involved project to get everything working well.
Regards
Steve.
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