[jackh]

You may want to watch how they demo the CuBox with XBMC. It looks snappy to me (for a tiny PC).

http://solid-run.com/cubox

What I'm thinking is that it ticks all marks for a secondary XBMC machine in the house, as it has video hardware decoding, an infrared receiver and gigabit ethernet too. Any drawbacks the hardware gurus here can spot?

[BORIStheBLADE]

Just noticed they are going to release a Cubox Pro. It looks like it only really has more RAM.

[RaggSokk3n]

It runs Android 2.2 so NO native keyboard or other i/o support, no tablet mode, no butter, no google now and advanced search.
All this can be solved with workarounds - but that's not always ideal so an update will be necessary.
The update might create other problems as newer android versions usually recommend 1GHz+

800MHz won't handle 3D, no GPU mentioned as i could see so i would guess that its nothing impressive (weaker than mali 400) - but if the producers get involved with xbmc and source the drivers etc. necessary for hw.acc this might handle XBMC better than atoms.

[noggin]

Cubox is also running various Linux ports and there is some hardware acceleration in XBMC for it in a custom build. VPU accelerates H264 (and I think MPEG2 and VC-1)

Have a look over at the Cubox forums - and I think there is a Geexbox build for it. It's sort of in roughly the same situation as the Pandaboards. Not as popular as the Raspberry Pi - but there is some development.

Think Android is more of an afterthought on Cubox.