I use a similar series HP SFF PC as an HTPC. There is room for a half-height GPU that will accelerate h.264, as well as space for two drives, so you can SSD the OS and use a mechanical drive for storage. They're an excellent cheap HTPC solution if you're not gaming.
Good deal in that it comes with Windows 7 Pro, which many eBay machines don't. You can get a Q8400 for a PC like this for like $40. Not an overclocking rig by any means, but might be good for family who don't want to spend a lot of money on a desktop.
Just to add to this thread in case anyone finds it later, the Bay Trail Dell Venue 11 Pro is limited to 25MB/s. Any MicroSD card faster than that would be wasted: http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/audhs1/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=au&l=en&s=dhs&docid=631103
If you're on a limited budget, you can upgrade your CPU for a fairly minimal amount of money. A Core 2 Quad Q6600 is $40 and is a great overclocker. Other, faster Core 2 Quads can be had for less than $100.
You'll get lots of people encouraging you to buy a whole new platform, and you'll get...
The display area on this is actually smaller than the 16:10 24" monitor I use now. Seems like this idea would work better as a 27" monitor with a 21:9 aspect ratio.
I have a fanless half-height HD6450 in a four or five year old HP small form factor Core 2 Duo PC with a tiny power supply that serves as my HTPC. Quiet. Works great. Heat and power are not a problem.
(And this old, cheap HTPC is plenty responsive with an SSD as the boot drive and a...
It has to be on Verizon's $60 per month prepaid plan for six months before you can do anything with it. It's not clear if it would go to PagePlus at that point, but the general thinking is it would.
The memory on the 1 GB card is apparently not the same. The 2 GB card has 6008MHz memory and the 1 GB card has 5010MHz memory. Anyone know how this affects performance?
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