Any experience with cubox-i?

[Amos Shapira]

On 13 January 2014 23:00, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 1/13/2014 1:45 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
>
>>
>> So what's the advantage of this "Chinese Tablet"? It's limited to old
>> Android (I found them on eBay too now, they all list Android 4.2 or 4.0),
>> can it run a Bittorent client properly? No HDMI cable etc. So why?
>>
>>
>>
> It's not really a tablet, it has no screen. The screen is your monitor/TV
> connected via an HDMI port (obviously you looked at a different device than
> I did). It identifies as a tablet, so that's why I called it that.
>
> A link would help:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Android-4-2-SATA-HDD-Media-Player-HD-TV-Quad-Core-
> Bluetooth-DLNA-WiFi-Streamer-5-/151207460031?pt=US_
> Internet_Media_Streamers&hash=item2334aabcbf
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utorrent.client&hl=en
>
> The main reasons is that it cost $100 (US) for the unit, and it includes a
> quad core ARM chip. This will give you enough CPU power to run BitTorrent,
> watch TV shows, etc and not run up the electrical bill that a real computer
> would. If you download to a USB memory stick instead of a disk drive, it
> will be silent.
>

Wouldn't I get the same power benefits with the Cubox? Silent drive can be
achieved with a <$200 multi-GB eternal SSD drive.


> As for Android being old, the current divide is Android 4 (any version).
> Older versions than 4 won't run modern Apps.


I've been using Android for the past 5 years. There is a big lag between
latest releses and back-porting to none-standard hardware (that's why I
bought the Nexus 5 and intend to stick to Nexus hardware for phones/tablet).

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?
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