[TriEmbed] In need of a tiny, cheap, powerful(ish) computer

[Alex Davis]

> Anyone have a recommendation for a decent, tiny, and cheap (<$150) PC? I
> need something to drive the big LED display permanently. The original
> plan
> was to use a Raspberry Pi 2, but it lacked the necessary oomph. I was
> able
> to run it with little problem off my Lenovo S21e (Celeron N2840) but I
> wouldn't want to go less powerful than that. And I'd rather higher clock
> speed (> 2GHz) than more cores. Right now, my only real thought is to buy
> another S21e (about $170) but a whole laptop seems kind of silly... and
> for
> some odd reason, I cannot get basically the same hardware in a tiny PC...
> you know, without a screen, keyboard, and battery :P
> 
> Note... part of the reason for the needed power is I've got it setup to
> do
> some video display, both from video files and a webcam... that is just
> dog
> slow on the Pi.

What about re-encoding the videos to something less CPU-intensive, like
MPEG2?


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