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

[Jamie Bennett]

Steve Garton wrote:
> 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.

Not sure. I don't use mine for anything stressful. It downloads torrents,
streams them to my xbox360, holds a few screen programs (irssi e.t.c) and some
other general programs. It's a dog to surf the internet on it so video playback
would probably be out of the question.

> Steve Garton
> sheepeatingtaz.co.uk

Regards,
Jamie.
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