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I will have a look at the NUC and Brix but they would have to be pretty good for the price.
The Ouya doesn't have infrared as far as I can see.
Thanks xbs08 I'll give those a try. I have tried a USB 3.0 but I didn't see any difference over the SD Card I was using.
I've bought various USB sticks, USB hdd and a Sandisk 95MB/s Micro SD to try and make it quicker. My main problem speed wise is you can't watch anything while copying files to the attached storage but I don't think I'll ever be able to fix that due to it being a problem with the hardware.
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That gigabyte Brix looks awesome!!!
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Unfortunately there are no x86 systems under $100 that are going to do what you want. The only other option is arm which can either run Linux or Android. The best bang for your buck in your price range is the mk809iv; a quad core hdmi stick that under the nightly builds supports hardware acceleration and can pull off 1080p.
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... But without network-lan. 😕
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Over on the Rasplex website they are indicating that they will soon turn their attention towards the Cubox-i. My suspicion, the RPI was the novelty at the time with perceived potential but in reality and for me the UI is frustratingly slow and so the focus is moving to better hardware.
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I think the replacement most similar to a Pi is a Wandboard or Cubox-i. Both can run OpenElec.
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I have a k-r42 bought from geekbuying.com and it works very well. I have played with the different firmwares they have on freaktab.com for this device and an old alpha 8 October 29th of gotham and it runs very well. The newest firmwares or gotham alpha 12 February 18th don't seem to run 1080p video smoothly...trying to figure out which is the issue. They run android. Very happy with the performance for ~$80 usd. These are quad core rk3188 with 2GB RAM and 8GB HDD.