Any experience with cubox-i?

[Udi Finkelstein]

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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