Any experience with cubox-i?

[Amos Shapira]

On 13 January 2014 00:06, Moish <moish at mln.co.il> wrote:

> Their product seems solid.
> Have you considered Apple TV? It's only  109 AUD down under :)
> Currently works for ios 6.1.
>

What's the advantage of buying a locked-in hardware and having to
jail-break it? It has a single-core A5 (I'm looking at the 3rd generation
specs) vs. 4-core i.MX6 Quad. I guess if it can run anything but iOS then
it'll require extra work compared to pre-loaded debian/ubuntu/whatever for
the CuBOX.

So again - what's the advantage of Apple TV hardware over the Cubox? Is the
Apple TV more power efficient? Does it have more useful ports? (I couldn't
find full specs to compare, seems they both have one HDMI port and support
roughly the same kind of other inputs and outputs)?


> rPi?
>

I looked up "rpi" and the closest I found was the raspberry pi site with
this quick-start-guide:  http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide i.e.
as far as I get it, I'll still have to find many parts around it. While it
really sounds like fun to play with the rPi, i don't have time for this and
am looking for something that I can can mostly plug, perhaps configure some
software on, then use it.


> I have 2 jb atv almost 2 years now, currently running xbmc v12.3 without a
> hiccup.
> Software selection is a bit scant
> I'll use rPI as servers for other apps.
>

How did you get the hardware around the rPi?

Thanks for your response.

--Amos
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