It can handle the toughest 1080p as long as you use the Broadcom Accelerator card that comes with the blu ray option. If you don't use the card, it won't be able to handle the tough stuff even if you have the T9500.
H264 and VC1 hardware acceleration is working now:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45525
Linux XBMC + Nvidia = Hardware Acceleration
Linux XBMC on ION or the new Mac Mini is going to be the killer HTPC
Incorrect. All of the 2007FP I have bought in the last few months have been A05 LG S-IPS panels and other buyers on this forum have been getting the same.
Get a 2007FP. I bought a bunch of them in the last few months and all were revision A05 LG S-IPS panels. The one I received this week was a A05 LG S-IPS panel as well so I think its pretty safe to say you will get a LG S-IPS panel. If you do a search here, you will see that everyone else who...
The CPU won't be doing the decoding. It has a Broadcom Blu-ray decode acceleration card to do the heavy lifting required for Blu-ray just like Dell's Inspiron 1525.