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Originally Posted by mikefromMN
If I were going to do a small set-top unit, raspberry pi wouldn't be the way I would go. It sucks. 700mhz processor (you can overclock to 1ghz) and 512 mbs of ram just doesn't cut it. I was using an xbmc build and, while it "worked", it was janky as hell; slow to respond and just very inconsistent performance over all. If anybody gets serious about this, look into a pandaboard or the beagleboard. Both have better hardware and are only marginally more expensive.
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Good to hear, thank you for the honest review! I have one on my desk at work and I was tempted to dick around with it in this arena--I will not waste my time now!
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Originally Posted by A//// Guy
Buy a Roku, stream netflix, done. haha
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Indeed, very simple and it works!
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Originally Posted by A//// Guy
Thats what I do. I stream movies from my computer to Roku wirelessly as well using the PLEX app. Dont have time to manage a full on server and putz with all that crap.
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Yet you digress like the rest of us
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Originally Posted by AJ
A boxee box is amazing as well, plays anything and everything you toss at it and still want to fuck the dog when you aren't looking.
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boxee is pretty decent too! I used to run that for a while on my appleTV.
WDTV is still the best all-around IMHO, it can be so simple and do so much more with just a little bit more effort. Roku is nice but you can't mount NFS or SAMBA shares, and that's just pewpie.
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