Any experience with cubox-i?

[Dov Grobgeld]

Please let us know your experience with it after you get it! I'm currently
using the a raspberry pi with XBian as a media box and I start to get tired
of both its slow speed and of the fact that the file system of the SD-card
gets corrupted once every other week.

Regards,
Dov


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just wanted to thank everyone for your opinions.
>
> I also talked to a friend who owns an Apple TV and saw it in operation
> (the one which can't be hacked, he uses DNS forwarding tricks to make it
> talk to his storage. Don't ask - it's stuff that he accumulated over years)
> and he also thinks that the Cubox looks good for my needs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Amos
>
>
> On 15 January 2014 04:38, Udi Finkelstein <Linux-IL at udif.com> wrote:
>
>> If you want to follow the state of Linux and XBMC on ARM, you can take a
>> look at this thread:
>> http://www.hometheater.co.il/vt168648.XBMC-on-Linux-for-Arm-Devices.html
>>
>> Udi
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:18 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
>> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/13/2014 3:00 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The attraction I see in Cubox is the ability to run standard Linux on
>>>> it. Isn't it better than android-only on some hardware from China?
>>>>
>>>>  The Cubox seems to be the same general hardware with less ports. What
>>> I don't understand is why they are pushing the $100 unit, when for $30 more
>>> you get twice the cores and twice the RAM.
>>>
>>> I don't know what the other units run, the one  I pointed to did not
>>> officially support Linux, it does not mean it won't run on it.
>>>
>>> I was a victim of feature creep, I started out with a direct from China
>>> Chromecast (without the brand name) and ended up with an Arm based PC.
>>>
>>> As for Android, what bothers me about it is that unless you root the
>>> device you can't add device drivers (which may not be an issue to you, it
>>> turns out not to be one to me), and the UI for some things sucks. If you
>>> look back to the how to play videos link  I posted, it works, but my wife
>>> would never use such a thing. A simple App which would list files on a file
>>> server, where you could tap to play them, with all the setup hidden would
>>> be right for her. I also have not found a player that can fast forward
>>> within MP4 files. :-(
>>>
>>> Or in plain English, I would be a lot happier if XMBC worked on my
>>> tablet, or someone copied the Apple TV player as an Android App.
>>>
>>> As far as running bit torrent, the thing that I have found that affects
>>> download rates the most is latency. If you have a fast multicore X86 (or
>>> X64) processor, a wired ethernet connection and a fast upload speed, you
>>> get a lot faster downloads, even if your slower CPU is not heavily loaded.
>>>
>>>
>>> Geoff.
>>>
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