Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

[Matt Ryanczak <ryanczak () gmail com>]

On 8/13/11 4:01 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> Anyone got experience with XBMC and similar linux media centre tools running on tablet or netbook class hardware? I 
> like the idea of using a couple of el cheapo Android tablets with decent external speakers as music/video/TV/phone 
> terminals, getting content from a NAS box and perhaps phone from a * server.
>
> Roku etc. are far, far too expensive for what they do.

I run a couple of xbmc instances using atom based nvidia ION systems. 
There are a couple of netbook|top class systems that sport these 
chipsets for a decent price but I don't know that they are as cheap as a 
roku can be had for.