[GRLUG] Pre-installed Linux on laptops

[Michael Mol]

On 1/26/2010 3:10 PM, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> I bought an atom board last year for a small file/multimedia server
 > and it does great.

I imagine it would, for that.

> It can even do video transcoding(pyTivo using ffmpeg) at a little
> under real time.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  In particular, I'm referring to 
the quality of your transcodes. Which codec you transcode to, the frame 
size of your data, as well as the quality settings you use all combine 
to make for a rather dramatic speed/quality tradeoff.

>
> My only concern is the screen size/resolution.  800x600 seems just too
> small for just about anything.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to do GUI web browsing at 800x600.  At that 
resolution, I'm sticking to an xterm with somewhere between 6-8pt font.