Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-02-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Just wanted to thank everyone for your opinions. I also talked to a friend who owns an Apple TV and saw it in operation (the one which can't be hacked, he uses DNS forwarding tricks to make it talk to his storage. Don't ask - it's stuff that he accumulated over years) and he also thinks that the

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-02-01 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Please let us know your experience with it after you get it! I'm currently using the a raspberry pi with XBian as a media box and I start to get tired of both its slow speed and of the fact that the file system of the SD-card gets corrupted once every other week. Regards, Dov On Sat, Feb 1,

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-14 Thread 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

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-14 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 1/14/2014 7:23 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: x86-64 (amd64) and x64 (ia-64) aren't the same... I guess that's a hazzard of using Windows. It's commonly referred to as X86 (32 bit) and X64 (64 bit for the amd64 and compatible Intel processors). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-14 Thread 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 geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2014 3:00 PM, Amos Shapira

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 January 2014 00:06, Moish mo...@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

Re: Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 January 2014 04:33, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.comwrote: Forgot to send to the list, with some additional information. Original Message Subject: Re: Any experience with cubox-i? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:50:47 +0200 From: geoffrey mendelson

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:38:13PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: How did you get the hardware around the rPi? And software: you need to pay extra for a codec license. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Moish
On 13/01/2014 13:22, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:38:13PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: How did you get the hardware around the rPi? And software: you need to pay extra for a codec license. Although xbmc runs happily on rPi (the model with hdmi gcard), I'm going to use it

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 02:00:50PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson 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?

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 January 2014 23:00, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Pablo Kohan
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: Everything I read about this unit so far is just 100% positive. Does anyone here have experience with it, the service? hardware quality? I ordered some CuBox-i4-Pro units and am waiting for them to be delivered.

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Moish
On 13/01/2014 13:38, Amos Shapira wrote: On 13 January 2014 00:06, Moish mo...@mln.co.il wrote: Their product seems solid.

Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, After moving to a new rented unit I found that it's going to be a bit (or very) tricky to get my aging desktop (which I mainly use for Bittorent and storage server these days) connected to the ADSL modem using wired Ethernet. Instead, I though that I might get myself some media-centre

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-12 Thread Moish
On 12/01/2014 12:59, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, After moving to a new rented unit I found that it's going to be a bit (or very) tricky to get my aging desktop (which I mainly use for Bittorent and "storage

Fwd: Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Forgot to send to the list, with some additional information. Original Message Subject:Re: Any experience with cubox-i? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:50:47 +0200 From: geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com To: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com On 1/12