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Originally Posted by id10t
For what? They are supposed to have hardware accelerated mpeg decoding and can play 1080p video ...
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They do, and they actually play 1080p video very well. For what they were designed to do (dirt-cheap platform to teach kids how to program computers), they're just about perfect - and a steal for $35 for the Model B (Model A just out in Europe for $25).
But they run 100% CPU on the XBMC menu doing nothing - and take far too long (forever) to update the library. Forget overclocking; they crash very quickly, even within the approved (e.g. non-warranty impacting) limits.
For a fan-less media player I can velcro to the back of the TV to serve all my content from elsewhere in the house, I've pinned my hopes on/am looking forward to delivery of my ODROID-U2
ODROID | Hardkernel.
Yup, that's a quad-core ARM9 1.7GHz with 2GB of RAM for $89...