Posted by Jim on 06/20/06 16:52

Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:23:05 GMT, Jim wrote:
>
>
>>addendum: getting back on topic, I bet I could get a machine specced the
>>same as my DVR for something close to £140 or even lower these days -
>>assuming I could still lay my paws on a Matsonic 8157E board and an
>>XP2400+ processor...
>
>
> Certainly, but why spec it so low when you can spec it to do so much more?

to keep the cost to a minimum, maybe?
OK, you can get a standalone DVR for a hundred bucks, but there you're
looking at an embedded system and /maybe/ a 1GHz processor. Being as
it's there to do only one thing (compress streaming video), it shouldn't
even need that.

As a dealer, I'm finding it more and more difficult to lay my hands on
anything lower than a 2800 Sempron32.

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