[zaphod24]

Hello guys,

I was thinking to buy OSMC Vero device, like I bought many of this community driven devices such as Raspberry Pi, ODROID and so on. After reading this thread from beginning I realized that OSMC Vero is completely or almost same device as CuBox, but cost really more money than CuBox. Can anybody tell me what is difference and is it worth investing money in OSMC Vero?

As the owner of a Cubox-i2 that was ultimately disappointed at what seemed to be hardware/bus limitations I keep wondering this myself. I replaced my Cubox-i2 with an RPi2 several weeks ago and have been quite pleased.

I am anxiously awaiting the first user experiences and reviews of the Vero with OSMC. I expect the experience to be similar to the one I had with the Cubox-i2 but I also hope that it IS better and that a version of OSMC becomes available for the Cubox (at present only RPi and RPi2 images are available for download).

From a price perspective, my Cubox-i2 was $79 last March from Newegg and it came with a power supply and an 8gig microSD card with Android on it. I'm still trying to wrap my head around $199 for similar hardware even factoring in that the Vero adds a specialized remote, 802.11 and bluetooth as well as a better/faster microSD card and a possibly better power supply (I'm in the USA so the power supply that came with the Cubox worked fine for me). I'm all for supporting open source but $199 just seems too high. I bought 2 RPi2 systems (2x RPi2 board, clear case, microusb power supply, 8gb microSD card, usb IR receiver with remote) for $207, so essentially I got 2 Kodi-capable systems for the price of 1 Vero...