My understanding is that playing flash movies is still at the alpha stage (gnash project http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash). For that reason alone, I would not give something like that to my mother. Is there a movie playing technology that is stable enough for general purpose consumption? One negative of the decTOP that is not obvious is that the decTop does not have an integrated network adaptor (based on a web page), instead it comes with a USB to network adaptor. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I am willing to consider ARM or MIPS boards. decTOP likes: 1) low power usage (if I believe web pages, 8W) 2) standard memory and hard drive interface 3) video interface provided as well as mouse and keyboard 4) low price I still have to do some reading up on the TCP/IP protocol before actually deciding to buy something. On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:36:11 -0400, "Klein, Richard" <Richard.Klein@cytyc.com> said:
The decPIC does look interesting at the advertised price
kstratton@fastmail.us wrote: point, but I
think the price is high when shipping is added.
The kicker for me is video. I thought this would be just the thing to send to my sister in Georgia, because all she really needs is email and web access (and maybe basic word processing). You wouldn't initially think video performance would really matter there, but then I think of all the times people email links to videos and whatnot, and it would be really irritating to not be able to see what the person's linking to.
One of the end-user reviews I found on the web said that the PIC is really too slow for video, managing only single-digit frames per second.
The USB 1.1 is also a bit of a downer, but not as much of a deal-breaker for me.
-- Rich
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