Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Soundbar

Polk Audio SurroundBAR
Philips Ambisound
Yamaha Digital Sound Projector with Intellibeam

Sunday, June 05, 2011

Small form factor PC

Apple Mac mini Mid 2010 85W 2.7B

Dell Inspiron Zino HD Home Theater PC HTPC AMD Athlon II X2 P360 with with Mobility Radeon HD 5450 MXM 90W 33db 47db (CD)
Noise 3.4B(Idle) 3.5B(HDD) 4.6B(90%CPU) 4.7B(ODD)
AnandTech Review
KitGuru Review Noise
Athlon II X2 P360 is slower than Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Radeon 5450 is slower than Intel HD Graphics, about the same as Nvidia GeForce 320M

ASRock
Vision 3D Intel Core i7/i5/i3, Nvidia GeForce GT425M, USB 3.0, i3-370M is faster than i5-2415M, NVIDIA GeForce GT425M is faster than most Intel HD Graphics
Vision Core 100HT Intel Core i7/i5/i3, HD Graphics, USB 3.0

HP Pavilion Slimline 5000 Pentium Dual-Core 220W
Noise 3.71B(Idle) 3.91B(Operation)

Shuttle X350 ION fanless 40W Atom D510 Dual Core 1.66GHz Nvidia ION2 $500
浩鑫 XS35 XS35市售三種規格,SE1160, SE2250, XV-250D, 其中XV-250D為搭載NVIDIA ION機種

AOpen MP6X 2nd Generation Core i3/i5/i7 Processors Barebone Silentek 6.0 22db quiet

Lenovo IdeaCentre Q Q150 Atom D510 ION 65W
Lenovo IdeaCentre Q700 Pentium E5200 Dual Core 2.5GHz, GMA X4500, 120W

Acer X3910

Virtual Machines with Modern Linux Distributions

Oracle VM VirtualBox, VirtualBox Extension Pack, Pre-Built Developer VMs, Appliances, Community
VirtualBox Virtual Appliances

VMware Player, Operating Systems Appliances with VMware Tools VMPlayer

Comparison of platform virtual machines 3D acceleration, OpenGL, DirectX, Direct3D