brunion1
May 31st, 2012, 04:38 PM
Hey guys, I'll cut straight to it:
I've been wanting to build a kind of media center desktop for use with my HDTV for a while now. My plan was to find a small desktop with HDMI out, a decent hard drive, and a wireless card, then install Ubuntu and use it to consume media on my TV(Maybe develop an Android app to facilitate that if there's not one I like). I'm thinking I need something similar to a Mac Mini, but I honestly can't find any hardware that seems to fit that description. Can you guys think of something I could use? Thanks for any help you may have!
Additional info: Senior IS major, played with Ubuntu/Linux Mint. Dabbled in Android dev. I'd be willing to build the PC if I needed to, but I'm definitely not a hardware guy.
I've been wanting to build a kind of media center desktop for use with my HDTV for a while now. My plan was to find a small desktop with HDMI out, a decent hard drive, and a wireless card, then install Ubuntu and use it to consume media on my TV(Maybe develop an Android app to facilitate that if there's not one I like). I'm thinking I need something similar to a Mac Mini, but I honestly can't find any hardware that seems to fit that description. Can you guys think of something I could use? Thanks for any help you may have!
Additional info: Senior IS major, played with Ubuntu/Linux Mint. Dabbled in Android dev. I'd be willing to build the PC if I needed to, but I'm definitely not a hardware guy.