[ubuntu-uk] Viglen 'Review' (Was: Re: downloading slow torrents & energy consumption)

[Alan Pope]

2009/4/9 Steve Garton <sheepeatingtaz at sheepeatingtaz.co.uk>:
> Would a Viglen have enough grunt to run something like boxee
> (www.boxee.tv)? Boxee has rtorrent integrated, but it is mainly a media
> centre (a fork of xmbc I believe). I currently have it running on an old
> (~5 year old) PC in the living room (as a proof of concept to my wife),
> but would like to move to a cheap, small, quiet machine in future.
>

Nope. The Viglen can barely playback video at all, let alone do
something funky like boxee.

Cheers,
Al.