Re: Alternative to MCE?

[LeeUKHA <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you just broke your argument there...

"It's been running nicely on a Dual Core with 4GB of RAM...."

Right then, I'll just chuck my year old MythTV box in the bin and spend
a grand on a new one with Vista????

Or I could just carry on using MythTV as it is, with it's weedy 1.8GHz
single core with 512MB of RAM.
It still manages to record three shows at once, watch a recorded one,
and stream another to a PC upstairs...
While having a fairly high WAF score...

£200 for Vista, err, no thanks....


> Ooh, that's a balanced article, eh?
>
> I've been running Vista on two machines since November; a decent
dual-core
> Dell Precision 9200 with 4GB RAM and a bottom-of-the-range Dell
Inspiron
> 1300 laptop with 1GB RAM.
>
> The Vista experience on them is great, Media Center included (though
I've
> not got TV cards in either of them). Can't recommend it highly enough.
>
> Driver support is better than it was when XP was launched, IMO.
>
> Lots of people whinge about UAC. They tend to be the ones who think
that
> it's a good idea to do everything with administrative privileges. I
find UAC
> to be one of the best features.
>
> I'd suggest upping the RAM to 1 or 2GB and adding a pen drive for
> ReadyBoost.
>
> Then, enjoy. I don't think you'll find better.
>
> Steve
>