2015-05-14, 05:18
That is a great price for the BI320.
(2015-05-14, 04:57)ronbaby Wrote: P.S. I guess this box will contain a "Braswell" processor, which I can only guess.... based on the name... will fall someplace in between Bay Trails and Haswell. This of course gives me an excuse to ask Matt Devo what he thinks of "Braswell" for a Kodi box.
(2015-05-14, 03:03)ronbaby Wrote:(2015-05-14, 01:46)Matt Devo Wrote: that's also a great deal for $100. I just can't recommend BayTrail devices to people when Haswell devices can be had for slightly more and offer significantly more video playback capability.
So, um, just for my edification, you're saying that even though this box:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...24G2HM7503
is quad core (rather than dual) and even though it's clocked faster (1.83GHz) than the other two boxes I've mentioned, you still wouldn't recomment it because it is Bay Trails?
(2015-05-14, 04:57)ronbaby Wrote:(2015-05-14, 03:17)Robotica Wrote: Already noticed the Asrock Beebox (Celeron N3000 Braswell with 12 EU's - 4W, usb3.0, type C, 2x hdmi, displayport)?
No, your mention of it if the first reference I've seen to such a box.
Gee! It appears that everybody is getting into this market now. That's great news for everybody who wants, plans, or is already using Kodi, of course.
That AsRock box definitely looks interesing, but of course, the price is critically important. And I'm not seeing anyplace online when any price info has yet been disclosed.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
I do like the look of it. It appears that Asrock had the good sense to put a USB 3.0 port on the front, and also to equip the thing with an IR receiver.
P.S. I guess this box will contain a "Braswell" processor, which I can only guess.... based on the name... will fall someplace in between Bay Trails and Haswell. This of course gives me an excuse to ask Matt Devo what he thinks of "Braswell" for a Kodi box.
(2015-05-14, 05:54)Matt Devo Wrote: Braswell = successor to BayTrail-M/D (mini-PCs). Similar to Haswell->Broadwell, it's basically the same architecture with a die shrink and a few spec bumps. It will be faster and use less power, but I don't believe the GPU specs have been released yet (unconfirmed 8th-gen LP, up to 16 EUs), so it's hard to evaluate in terms of Kodi performance relative to existing products. We'll have to wait and see until something gets into the hands of reviewers, but I'd make an educated guess that we're looking at something approaching the Haswell Celeron in terms of GPU performance, but not matching the Broadwell Celeron.
(2015-05-14, 01:39)ronbaby Wrote: I'm no expert, but as far as I can make out, the same is all true also of HEVC and Hi10P. It all sounds great in theory, but in practice there's essentially zero content at this point in time
(2015-05-14, 01:39)ronbaby Wrote: Oh! And by the way, here's another one I saw today that's also pushing down close to that $100 magic number:
Zotac ZBOX-BI320-U
http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-Mini-Barebon...zotac+zbox