2012-05-20, 14:50
(2012-05-20, 01:06)Death-Axe Wrote: I seriously doubt that openelec users will be using high end systems, so it's pointless adding it anyway. It would be a complete waste of a high end system to use as a HTPC alone.
I've got an ion, an e350 fusion, an i3 and a quad core phenom w/gt220, all of which run openelec. They are all standalone htpcs, the two desktop-class machines are used simply because I already have them (and I feel the xbmc experience is much nicer on a beefy cpu, even if media plays 'just fine' on low powered machines). I suppose I could argue that if I'm running xbmc it's "a complete waste of time" having a desktop os/software running behind it, I could always dual boot.
If I was building a bespoke htpc for myself, I'd certainly be using a desktop cpu and running an embedded os with xbmc like openelec.
edit: I don't have any media that is 10bit