<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 September 2013 07:19, Chris Robertson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@teamrobertson.co.nz" target="_blank">chris@teamrobertson.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I've been looking around for a cheap machine for my dad as a first intro to xbmc+mythtv. I have a RaspPi running openelec - amazing for such a tiny box - but the UI is a bit sluggish and more importantly, he wants to stream from <a href="http://premierleaguepass.com" target="_blank">premierleaguepass.com</a> but the RaspPi can't do flash. Curse your lack of ARM support adobe!<br>
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I just noticed this blog post:<br>
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<a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/73848-these-mini-pcs-are-powered-by-intel-celeron-chips" target="_blank">http://www.tgdaily.com/<u></u>hardware-features/73848-these-<u></u>mini-pcs-are-powered-by-intel-<u></u>celeron-chips</a><br>
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Has anyone tried one of these? Even with the outrageous shipping it looks like a cheaper option than a NUC but still reasonable performance.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline"><br>I have not, but i did use an early celeron eeebox [1], and it had serious problems decoding hd quality (720) h264 videos, like it was impossible to watch. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">Nice thing about Rpi is the hw h264 decoder. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">
<br>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_EeeBox_PC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_EeeBox_PC</a></div> <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Cheers,<br>
Chris<br>
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