[Herts] Freeview USB stick with a Netbook ?

[Andrew Benham]

Sorry if this is a bit off-topic...

I'm contemplating buying a netbook (perhaps a Samsung) to
avoid lugging a heavier laptop around.  One of my intended
uses would be to plug my Freeview USB stick tuner into the
netbook.  But the thought has crossed my mind - is a netbook
going to have the horse-power to decode the data stream and
display video (and audio) ?

The USB stick tuner says it needs a 1.2GHz CPU or better -
most of the Atom-based Netbooks are spec'd faster than that,
but is CPU speed the whole story here ?

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Andrew Benham     Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

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