Installing XBMC on AsRock ION 330 HT with Ubuntu 10.04

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ASRock box

Today I installed my AsRock ION box (after it sitting in some desk for 6 months). For those of you who don't know the AsRock ION, it's a tiny desktop PC driven by an Intel Atom CPU, and featuring an Nvidia Ion graphical chip. Although the Atom CPU is considered slow, the Nvidia Ion chipset more then makes up for that when watching high definition, 1080p video content. The Ion chip basically offloads whatever CPU processing would be required to decode the video content. As such, the GPU takes over all the work, and we're not really bothered with the fact that the Intel Atom is slow.