2011-06-03, 04:15
I sort of got tired of seeing statements and repeated statements that "Heavy Skins" like MQ2 will struggle on the lowly Atom Ion configurations, which I feel is misinformation at worst, and FUD at best to someone that trying to understand what they can expect from a system. So here is an unedited video (IN HD) of a little nettop, a foxconn nt 330i with a 1.6Ghz 330 Atom/ion combo doing the basics of what you do with XBMC all running what is considered by many to be the heaviest of heavy skins MQ2. You can see how fast it is from beginning of the system being off, I start with booting from the post screen, I go into the system info so you can see exactly what the hardware is and code that is running, I check the weather, check the TV guide, watch a movie, do some trick plays, spin through the movie library, get info on movies, use alternate views, do the same thing with some TV and lastly to the same with some music. Some times I go fast through the menus and some times slow just so you can see how it performs, the clicks give you some idea of how fast I am pressing buttons.
The system is a:
foxcon nt 330i
atom/ion 330 1.6 Ghz CPU
1 Gb ram
no hard drive
USB 8Gb stick for OS
openELEC / XBMC 10.1
Centralized MySQL database with 4 XBMC systems sharing the database
No content on device all accessed with SMB shares
Thumbnails and all art are also on a central share
No local content on device at all, only OS and XBMC on USB Thumb drive
Network is 100 mb/s wired Ethernet
I think it is very usable, I would not call that struggling, but but that is just my opinion, so watch it yourself and you decide how much of a struggle it is. Sure it might even be better on a faster CPU, that's not the point of this video. You can watch this and decide for yourselves if this minimal hardware configuration is adequate to support "heavy skins".
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The system is a:
foxcon nt 330i
atom/ion 330 1.6 Ghz CPU
1 Gb ram
no hard drive
USB 8Gb stick for OS
openELEC / XBMC 10.1
Centralized MySQL database with 4 XBMC systems sharing the database
No content on device all accessed with SMB shares
Thumbnails and all art are also on a central share
No local content on device at all, only OS and XBMC on USB Thumb drive
Network is 100 mb/s wired Ethernet
I think it is very usable, I would not call that struggling, but but that is just my opinion, so watch it yourself and you decide how much of a struggle it is. Sure it might even be better on a faster CPU, that's not the point of this video. You can watch this and decide for yourselves if this minimal hardware configuration is adequate to support "heavy skins".
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