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Zoostorm PCs
« on: 28 October 2012, 19:47:24 »

Anyone had any experience of them?

I've got one other PC I'm going to try as a new MediaPC for my TV. It's an IBM box, core duo around 1.8. Ghz I think, 2Gb ram. (TV shows & films) but if that fails to impress looking at budget PCs

http://www.ebuyer.com/395287-zoostorm-sff-desktop-pc-7873-1101

No OS is not a problem, as I could source that from MSDN.

Would the above be ok for Win8?  :-\

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Re: Zoostorm PCs
« Reply #1 on: 28 October 2012, 19:52:33 »

I was looking at the above because you get a lot more power than Atom based unit, for similar money & size is not really an issue.
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Re: Zoostorm PCs
« Reply #3 on: 28 October 2012, 20:21:50 »

i5 will be better buy imo..  and if budget is ok I would add an ssd..  :y
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« Reply #4 on: 28 October 2012, 20:25:36 »

Don't really need SSD, use external drives got a couple of 1Tb drives. Although I plan to move all that to a NAS at some point.
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Re: Zoostorm PCs
« Reply #5 on: 28 October 2012, 22:23:49 »

Zoomstorm seem to be ebuyer own brand. Expect it to be a bit duff

MSDN is not the right licence for this, no matter how you stretch the rules.

for any media pc, I'd stick with win7, due to codecs
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Re: Zoostorm PCs
« Reply #6 on: 28 October 2012, 23:57:19 »

Zoomstorm seem to be ebuyer own brand. Expect it to be a bit duff

MSDN is not the right licence for this, no matter how you stretch the rules.

for any media pc, I'd stick with win7, due to codecs

Good point. Considering motherboard bundles now, case, psu I have now are still good.

Something like this i5 bundle: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Core-I5-3450-3-1Ghz/dp/B008DFC19M/ref=sr_1_48?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1351460158&sr=1-48
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Re: Zoostorm PCs
« Reply #7 on: 29 October 2012, 08:14:03 »

I lent one of my Raspberry Pis to a mate of mine and he says XBMC runs on it pretty well. When he gives it back I'll let you know.  ;D
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« Reply #8 on: 29 October 2012, 08:43:55 »

I lent one of my Raspberry Pis to a mate of mine and he says XBMC runs on it pretty well. When he gives it back I'll let you know.  ;D
I've got XBMC running on my S2, and it's also available for iPhone.
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« Reply #9 on: 29 October 2012, 09:19:14 »

We have a Zoostorm laptop bought from Argos probably 4 years ago used every day , no problems at all.
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« Reply #10 on: 29 October 2012, 10:48:40 »

I lent one of my Raspberry Pis to a mate of mine and he says XBMC runs on it pretty well. When he gives it back I'll let you know.  ;D

Be interested to see if it could handle 1080p in XBMC :y
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« Reply #11 on: 29 October 2012, 10:49:23 »

We have a Zoostorm laptop bought from Argos probably 4 years ago used every day , no problems at all.

Thanks  :y

Although looking into it further, I think I will re-build mine as I can get better spec for the same money
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« Reply #12 on: 29 October 2012, 10:49:44 »

Zoomstorm seem to be ebuyer own brand. Expect it to be a bit duff

MSDN is not the right licence for this, no matter how you stretch the rules.

for any media pc, I'd stick with win7, due to codecs

Good point. Considering motherboard bundles now, case, psu I have now are still good.

Something like this i5 bundle: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Core-I5-3450-3-1Ghz/dp/B008DFC19M/ref=sr_1_48?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1351460158&sr=1-48

Anyone recommend any other i5 bundles?
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« Reply #13 on: 29 October 2012, 12:41:13 »

I lent one of my Raspberry Pis to a mate of mine and he says XBMC runs on it pretty well. When he gives it back I'll let you know.  ;D

Be interested to see if it could handle 1080p in XBMC :y
Reading the specs, it sounds capable enough to me.

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The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries.

The GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode.
 
The GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24 GFLOPs of general purpose compute and features a bunch of texture filtering and DMA infrastructure.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
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Re: Zoostorm PCs
« Reply #14 on: 29 October 2012, 13:59:50 »

Zoomstorm seem to be ebuyer own brand. Expect it to be a bit duff

MSDN is not the right licence for this, no matter how you stretch the rules.

for any media pc, I'd stick with win7, due to codecs

Good point. Considering motherboard bundles now, case, psu I have now are still good.

Something like this i5 bundle: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Core-I5-3450-3-1Ghz/dp/B008DFC19M/ref=sr_1_48?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1351460158&sr=1-48

Anyone recommend any other i5 bundles?
My MCE is made up of a DH67GD mobo, and a DUAL CORE Ivy Bridge i5.  Dual core, as the chip is 35W, and it doesn't need Quad Core (for MCE use).

Raspberry Pi, I'm sure, was built for 1080p playback...  ...although not aware of any suitable software.  If the device meets your needs, at less than 5W at full chat, its a good device...  (external storage power requirements are extra).
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