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In Reply to: RE: Finally Mac Mini Compared posted by dRRD on April 09, 2012 at 09:31:46
What you say probably applies to audio, but not video.
These small media centre things are rubbish. One need a quad core with good graphics to do video really well.
A sexy Zotac dual core I bought with ATI graphics is crap when it comes to video quality and I don't understand how they can sell it as a media machine.
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Point (or at least this thread) is that PCs used to be easily defined and easily recognised. Now where is the processing going on, where is the interaction? How are you going to define a PC? If you have a display or a DAC with lots of DSP that just needs to be networked then where is the PC? The discussions that go on here that one platform or transfer protocol is better than another is completely missing the point. You need as much processing as is necessary to turn data into HD video, you don't *need* a quad-core box with dedicated graphics.
Sorry, don't know whatyou are saying.
You are WRONG about quality video replay and rendering not requiring a powerful cpu and a high quality graphics card.
I thought I was pretty clear. You don't need a high power CPU and dedicated graphics if the PC is just streaming data. I don't need a high spec PC to get high quality audio from my DAC, data without dropouts will suffice. I'm pointing out the obvious which is that processing is not limited to the CPU or the motherboard or dedicated chipsets, it's also in the networked devices. The PC may well be contributing very little indeed.
I was not talking about the PC streaming video but driving it
It's OK I realise you didn't really get what I was on about.
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