Quick question I'm hoping one of you might have the answer to.
I was gonna build a mini-itx system for my bedroom so I could set it up in there for streaming movies, music, etc and then wire it into a touch screen to control it with but I'm now thinking I might just go the lazy, significantly cheaper route of just buying a second hand used laptop and using that as my system using the tv out to wire it up to a monitor if I want to.
Its just going to be used for streaming playback of movies and music over the wireless network and thats about it.
Movie's will mainly be compressed with xvid/divx.
Wondering what you all think the minimum spec I could get would be that'd do this smoothly without any issues.
I'm personally thinking:
700Mhz + (preferably 1Ghz but depends on price)
256Mb RAM
any old graphics and any old sound card
What'd you all think? Please dont just say 'oh 2Ghz CPU with 512Mb RAM cause thats obviously an easy claim but is way excesive and results in a HUGE price jump.
I'm seeing the older spec laptops on ebay for around $100 which to me sounds perfect to throw together a HTPC onto as a receiver for one room.
Thoughts, suggestions, ideas?