I’ve talked about ideas for Atom-based DVR / HTPC before.
Now, it seems we have all the parts needed to build one. Here is an example. The prices were taken as of October 27th, 2009.
- Case: Apex MI-008 ($39.99) – 250W is a bit overkill. I doubt this system will use more than 60W.
- Motherboard: Pegatron IPX7A-ION 330 ($149.00) – the same as POV ION330, has a 16x PCI-e and nVidia ION (GeForce 9400M) can enable Blu-ray playback.
- Tuner: AVerTVHD Duet ($59.99) – Dual ATSC-only tuner. Too bad there isn’t a Linux driver.
- Memory: 2x2GB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz SO-DIMM ($74.99) – Less should be okay.
- HDD: 1GB Western Digital Caviar Green ($84.99)
- Optical Drive (optional): LG BD-ROM ($129.99) – I can do without this initially.
- Remote (optional): Adesso ARC-1100 ($21.99)
- OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM ($109.99) – For Windows Media Center.
So, the total is $670.93 (or $518.95 without “optional” stuff). I would have loved to use MythTV and XBMC on Ubuntu, but the Linux driver support for internal dual ATSC tuners are non-existent.
Not sure, if I will get to working on it right away (I still have one more year of TiVo subscription), but it seems to be a good start.
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