<p dir="ltr">amazon fire tv stick is about the same price and can also run kodi + native apps + sideloaded android apps and it comes with a remote. only downside is no actual Linux. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 25, 2015 10:06 AM, "Preston" <<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's hard to beat Kodi on a Raspberry Pi II. May not be exactly what<br>
you're looking for, but look on YouTube for some vids. I'm close to<br>
replacing my Patriot Box Office with one for my movie room.<br>
<br>
Preston<br>
<br>
On 11/25/2015 8:24 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> We have discuss did in he past but lets go one more time. What would you<br>
> get for media box at home? I had different dedicated media players and<br>
> now I have windows PC which is no longer capable with running my kids<br>
> games :) While the E8400 CPU is capable of running 1080p content and the<br>
> box itself is relatively low noise for a desktop, still the box is huge<br>
> and power consumption is also factor.<br>
><br>
> So I'm thinking of going green of sort.<br>
><br>
> I have one multimedia android 4.0.4 box which has Ethernet and WiFi.<br>
> WiFi sucks big time and cannot hold connection. Also some apps works<br>
> fine some does not when playing multimedia content.<br>
><br>
> Idea is to get one of very small factor PC. I was looking at Zotac mini<br>
> PC forms.<br>
><br>
> Which one would you pick. Brand, form factor, CPU/GPU, even running OS ?<br>
><br>
><br>
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