If you don't need a TV tuner card in the media center, it will be hard to find
a solution for less than the cost of a Raspberry Pi and a large SD card.
That's what I use, and I'm quite happy with it. The interface (Raspbmc) is a
little sluggish, but once it's playing something I've never had
The idea of a Pi is solid, or you can see about building an AMD A4 or A6
based system. I personally like the chromecast quite a bit. the main thing
is to find out what you want it to do and make choices based on that.
the chromecast is not for everyone.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Rusty
I haven't got one of these yet, but this looks like a PI killer to me:
http://www.pcduino.com/pcduino3nano/
http://store.linksprite.com/pcduino3-nano/
It's a dual core 1ghz processor (Allwinner A20)
Mali 400 Dual Core GPU
1GB of Ram
10/100/1000 ethernet
it takes arduino shields
Has 4GB of
That looks pretty sweet, actually. The good thing is, newer and better SoCs
are coming out all the time; that's also sort of the bad thing, as I'd like
to get one of each to play with. But my wife is going to kill me if I bring
home another stray SoC I find on the street.
One potential
