2015-05-19, 12:04
A potentially good Kodi box has been released recently: ASRock Beebox. Since it's using a 4W CPU it's fanless which is a nice touch.
Specs:
What i'm unsure is how Celeron N3000 willl compare against the 3205U (Broadwell) or even 2955U (the Haswell one featured in most Chromeboxes). Comparing them at Intel Ark looks like N3000 is weaker but it's hard for me understand how that translates into actual Kodi performance...
I'm curious about the price of this thing.
UPDATE: ASRock has published a new Beebox Microsite. And there will be a fanless version with Intel N3000 and a N3150 version with a fan.
Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9256/asroc...the-beebox
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