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(10th Oct, 2014 12:38 AM)syco Wrote:  I love Quartz, but I just read something about
too much CPU usage. Is that still correct?

Are there other similar minimalistic style skins like
Quartz with less CPU usage?

@syco

on the contrary. Quartz was trying to re-use Macs Front row / original AppleTV skin and was doing it very good. As I was starting with AppleTV I used then later on RPI Quartz too. I don't remember skin be less cpu time costly from that time.

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was curious and tested now on just default xbmc setup, no hacks in advancedsettings etc. rpi oc at 900. skins with default settings (just rss feeds stopped).
confluence 30%.
quartz and also amber 50%.

looking at it practically - if you use RPI and GUI is fluid, what difference it makes if you read 50 or 30. none. and when XBMC goes idle and TV goes off or RPI inactivated as source, XBian turns renderer OFF and XBMC takes 5-10% (skin not relevant there).
so simply use what you prefer.