the samsung has a faster CPU in it(it is cheaper now than the old one), so in that respect, its better for running the crumby Liberate middleware GUI etc,but all told, its still CPU bound as there is still no GFx chip as such to offload the display processing, rather like trying to run quake through and old CGA ISA card (ISA came before pci or AGP, never mind PCx).
the links to the pace and samsung stb's (and the tvdrive and the now binned AVC stb)are on this message board somewere with the specs but i cant find them right now, perhaps someone can find them and add them here to re-read again, then we can continue with the links to todays type of spec and price you could get.
as a start that
http://www.pegasosppc.com/gallery.php?id=128 PPC SOC+ is being sold for $99 and being made in batches of 1000 i think it is, the more you make the cheaper it becomes.
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well my samsung 2100c, doesnt seem so good in the sound department to me, iv got a so called sound under problem, were the voice track should always be louder than the backtrack but isnt on this stb, years ago i had a pace and that had perfect sound in comparison,its not a scart lead problem, i suspect its a firmware problem in the wrong setting being set and the fact the programmers didnt see fit to add in an option to switch mono/st right:left etc.....