Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:26:11 +0700 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: well, i guess it's time to ask..... Message-ID: <4C6C8833.50108@pathscale.com> In-Reply-To: <20100819011024.GA10288@thought.org> References: <20100819011024.GA10288@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > ok guys, > i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful > computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait > until fall to ask, but it's close enough. > > can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. > (Disclaimer I work for a commercial compiler company) If you experience problems with performance of Atom I would generally not blame the processor. There are *zero* very well tuned compilers for Atom that I'm aware of. Most are content that the compiler works good enough(tm) and it's difficult (impossible) to get the low level timing data details out of Intel. Unless you're hand writing inline asm (*cough* ffmpeg) then it's certainly possible the code isn't optimized well enough. Depending on what else the processor is busy with, codec type and video size it should certainly possible to stream an "average" sized movie with no problem. Now can it handle Blu-ray I doubt it...
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