09-16-2009, 06:57 PM
No humor. You remember the ATV has a fairly old mobile GPU?
Graphics comparison:
. . . . . . . . . pixel. . . . . . .fill rate. . . . Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . pipelines. . . . GT/s. . . . . Bandwidth . . VRAM. . . . . .
GMA950 . . . 4. . . . . . . . . .1.6 . . . . . . . .10.7 . . . . . 192 MB (with 2 GB installed).
Go 7300 . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . 1.4 . . . . . . . . .5.6 . . . . . . 64 MB. . . .
They each have their own limitations but I am not sure the Mini 9 is as bad as you imagine. Running the stripped down OS in the ATV and relying on another computer to stream video to it does really reduce the processing requirements for it.
Graphics comparison:
. . . . . . . . . pixel. . . . . . .fill rate. . . . Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . pipelines. . . . GT/s. . . . . Bandwidth . . VRAM. . . . . .
GMA950 . . . 4. . . . . . . . . .1.6 . . . . . . . .10.7 . . . . . 192 MB (with 2 GB installed).
Go 7300 . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . 1.4 . . . . . . . . .5.6 . . . . . . 64 MB. . . .
They each have their own limitations but I am not sure the Mini 9 is as bad as you imagine. Running the stripped down OS in the ATV and relying on another computer to stream video to it does really reduce the processing requirements for it.