Any experience with cubox-i?

[geoffrey mendelson]

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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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.