Look what arrived on my desk this morning.

What you got planned for it?

Not quite sure yet.

First plan is to replace my Celeron/Ion Mediacentre with this.  It's running Raspbmc, but the boot times are a little slow.  Ordered a class 10 SD card to see if I can make it faster.

I've got a plan to replace my Core2Quad in the loft with a few of these running Sab, Sickbeard and Couchpotato.

Quote from: soopahfly on September 06, 2012, 21:38:43 PM
Not quite sure yet.

First plan is to replace my Celeron/Ion Mediacentre with this.  It's running Raspbmc, but the boot times are a little slow.  Ordered a class 10 SD card to see if I can make it faster.

I've got a plan to replace my Core2Quad in the loft with a few of these running Sab, Sickbeard and Couchpotato.

I found Raspbmc a bit slow to be a full time replacement for my HP microserver. Its sat doing nothing now ... need a new plan I think.

That's a little bit what I'm finding.  However, the cost saving of electricity running this, I might be able to live with it.
Apparently a faster SD card speeds the whole thing up a treat.

I do find it amazing that something that can barely run XBMC's interface can play my 720p stuff without breaking a sweat!

I found the same with mine, and to be honest my TV supports DLNA to stream direct from the microserver, I think I'll wait to see what else comes out distribution wise, I'm surprised there aren't really any appliance type releases other than RaspBMC.

I also tried the main linux distribution and browsing the net was a little painful, I'll give the Android release a go when its out (if it's not out already) and see what that's like.

I really only bought it to play with and will have a go when they bring out some newer distributions, I just don't have the time at the moment to dick around with linux distros to get them running how I want them.

I'm currently running Xbian, which seems a lot better than Raspbmc.


Tbh, I'm hoping to load some sort of multiple emulator setup, such as retroarch or run it inside some sort of cocktail table in the future.
Stuff where a full blown PC is just overkill.

production is being moved to the old Sony plant in Wales. Should become more readily available now.

Cool I'm still waiting on mine so hopefully it'll be the rev 2 board, no major changes really but the mounting holes should be handy!

You guys seen the Intel one they bringing out? Little more cost but seems a bit more grunty!

Kinda defeats the point though.

Quote from: soopahfly on September 09, 2012, 14:13:17 PM
Kinda defeats the point though.

Still same concept, cheap but not as cheap but has more grunt to ensure things like using as a media server bit more viable at 1080 etc?

But it's not a British product designed to promote the uk bedroom programmer.
Also, the pi has no problem playing 1080p, and can be run off 4 AA batteries.

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I can see the merits of both though, the Pi is just a little under powered for a HTPC, it's slow when using one of the XBMC variants (or the last one I tried on it) and if Intel price it right then I can see a decent market for it.

The Pi is very good for it's intended market, but some of the things people are using it for are pushing the limits.

It's a shame the intel one also requires a fan, an atom variant would be ideal really