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Will the Linux MC run on ARM-based processors?
csimon:
BTW it is a cool design, but I do have a few gripes with it. FYI:
1. The 4 USB ports at the back are very close together. If you have dongles to plug in or other USB cables that don't terminate in a fairly slimline plug, you'll have problems trying to fit things in. My RF keyboard dongle can just fit in but at a slight angle.
2. The expandable front plate with all sorts of ports sounds like a great idea but in practice having wires trailing from or things sticking out of the front of the machine makes it all a bit untidy.
3. Although it has Intel HD audio it only has stereo analogue out, not multichannel. And that socket also doubles as the coax SPDIF out so you can't have both analogue and digital plugged in and operational at the same time. The same goes for analogue/digital audio in.
4. There is a missed opportunity for IR remote control. I don't quite understand how/why this happened but apparently the hardware has a built-in IR receiver (the logo emblem on the front of the machine flashes when you point a remote at it) but it has not been implemented in the chipset and cannot be used. so you need a USB port for an IR/RF dongle.
mwillems:
--- Quote from: csimon on October 15, 2013, 08:42:03 am ---BTW it is a cool design, but I do have a few gripes with it. FYI:
1. The 4 USB ports at the back are very close together. If you have dongles to plug in or other USB cables that don't terminate in a fairly slimline plug, you'll have problems trying to fit things in. My RF keyboard dongle can just fit in but at a slight angle.
2. The expandable front plate with all sorts of ports sounds like a great idea but in practice having wires trailing from or things sticking out of the front of the machine makes it all a bit untidy.
3. Although it has Intel HD audio it only has stereo analogue out, not multichannel. And that socket also doubles as the coax SPDIF out so you can't have both analogue and digital plugged in and operational at the same time. The same goes for analogue/digital audio in.
4. There is a missed opportunity for IR remote control. I don't quite understand how/why this happened but apparently the hardware has a built-in IR receiver (the logo emblem on the front of the machine flashes when you point a remote at it) but it has not been implemented in the chipset and cannot be used. so you need a USB port for an IR/RF dongle.
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I had planned to use it with a powered external USB hub and an external soundcard, so those things wouldn't necessarily be deal breakers for me, but those do sound irritating.
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