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[Tom Goren]

somewhat blasphemous to promote apple products on a linux mailing list...

the fit-pc2 looks awesome, i am already making inquiries now, interested in
buying one myself.

tom.

2009/11/6 Marc Volovic <marc.volovic at swiftouch.com>

> Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro,
> whichever is your poison.
>
> ---MAV
> Marc. Volovic
> +972-54-467-6764
> marcvolovic at me.com
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 14:29, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  2009/11/6 Noam Rathaus <noamr at beyondsecurity.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a "pre-built" system that I can seamlessly and easily
>>> install Boxee on it.
>>>
>>> I am not interested in building one from scratch, as my goals are:
>>> 1) ease of installation
>>> 2) silence - the computer has to be dead-quite
>>> 3) everything just there - i mean, I don't want to buy X, Y and Z from
>>> three
>>> different places
>>> 4) has to be small and look slick
>>>
>>> AND most importantly
>>> 5) Has to have/come with a remote control
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of such units being sold in Israel?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry no answer from me about this one.
>>
>> But if you are like me - I suspect that you might be looking for
>> something to allow you to watch Internet media as well as digital TV
>> on your large screen TV in the living room, right?
>>
>> I recently learned about DLNA (dlna.org) - there are apparently
>> thousands of devices supporting it and the TV's among them which do it
>> properly should allow viewing of media over LAN (or even wireless LAN)
>> and there are apparently some open source efforts to support its
>> server-side on Linux too.
>>
>> My current (mid-term) plan is to get my hands on one of these TV's,
>> get a proper Digital TV tuner card on my desktop Linux and serve media
>> from the Linux over Wirless N or wired LAN to the TV.
>>
>> I have absolutely zero experience with actually implementing this or
>> even seeing/reading about someone who did. I just read a bit about it
>> in the last few weeks.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --Amos
>>
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