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| 1345904 | 2013-06-16 03:10:00 | HELL YEAH!!!! | Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345905 | 2013-06-16 07:33:00 | I am looking at one of the new Haswell i5's? Mint looks good for my purposes. Is there a big difference between the LTS and 15? 15 has new stuff, 13 has longer support. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1345906 | 2013-06-16 11:34:00 | 15 has new stuff, 13 has longer support. Might go for 15 then as it will only be running one app and it's not too much of a hassle to upgrade |
Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345907 | 2013-06-16 23:10:00 | Why not just build a headless media server and save all the hassles. I built mine on an old P4 running Amahi home server which is free (you do need CL to get it running though) took me a while as I had to learn the CL's needed. Has now been running for 18months continuously has all our media stored on it and I just made shortcuts on each computer to link to the media. It just works and no maintenance, certainly much easier than what your proposing and no VM's needed |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1345908 | 2013-06-17 02:22:00 | Why not just build a headless media server and save all the hassles. I built mine on an old P4 running Amahi home server which is free (you do need CL to get it running though) took me a while as I had to learn the CL's needed. Has now been running for 18months continuously has all our media stored on it and I just made shortcuts on each computer to link to the media. It just works and no maintenance, certainly much easier than what your proposing and no VM's needed Because my family wants a desktop as well so I though I might just as well combine them |
Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345909 | 2013-06-17 09:32:00 | Has anyone here actually built a hackintosh? sounds like a great idea at first but now I'm a little stuck on the DSDT file and if it's compatible with the brand new hardware. | Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1345910 | 2013-06-18 01:46:00 | Im a bit lost here!, you want to use VMware (player?, server?), on a Mac O/s to play a VM which will display video to the TV?....but you still want to game while this is happening? I dont understand why you think you need a VM to do this?... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1345911 | 2013-06-18 02:40:00 | Just to play devils advocate, any reason not to consider windows media center ? Nice easy parent friendly interface, works natively with windows remotes, easy to set up.... And another unexpected bonus, windows 8's new start screen people love to hate actually works pretty well with a windows remote. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1345912 | 2013-06-18 07:45:00 | Im a bit lost here!, you want to use VMware (player?, server?), on a Mac O/s to play a VM which will display video to the TV?....but you still want to game while this is happening? I dont understand why you think you need a VM to do this?... I was a bit stumped by that too. Just play your games and stream from the shared folders, any decent system should be able to do this |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1345913 | 2013-06-18 20:44:00 | I'm building it for my parents and my mum can't change the channel on the TV and with a nearly all mac household, they wouldn't even know how to turn a windows computer on let alone work productively with it! The actual desktop will be in the study for anyone who wants to use it, but it will be connected to the TV. I'll put out current DVD and CD collection onto the computer and have VMware running linux in turn running XBMC (this is so you can control the computer with two inputs), so my little sister can watch peter pan while my mum writes emails or whatever. It's going to run windows 7 (?) from www.windows7key.com until OSX Mavericks comes out. The windows dual boot scores me a gaming computer in the process. :D A little complicated maybe? |
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