[Ernie Oldiron]

Hi Everyone
I was wondering if you guys could please help me
I own a Minix 8H & it has come to the end of its useful life.
The question now is should I get a Minix 9H or should I get a
a notepad or laptop computer with obviously enough ram to run Kodi 17
& of course an HDMI output socket
Any advice would be much appreciated

[Klojum]

A Minix is one of the xx-thousand'th cheap Android boxes for a fixed location (near a TV or monitor) , a notebook/laptop is for portable usage. Those are two pretty different solutions.

Enough RAM to run Kodi? LibreELEC runs on 512MB internal memory basically. I don't think RAM will be an issue.
What is your 'use case'? 1080p only? Hevc? 4K? Sound setup?

There are simple laptops with Apollo Lake (J3350/3455/4205/etc) CPU's that can do 4K/10bit.
Some devices like the ODroid C2 and the Wetek HUB have been testdriven to the max by now.

[DarrenHill]

Thread moved to the main hardware section. Peripherals is for addon bits like remotes and keyboards

[wrxtasy]

I own a Minix 8H & it has come to the end of its useful life.
The question now is should I get a Minix 9H or should I get a

Unless you really really need Android and before buying new Hardware realise the S812-H is still fully capable. The GPU in it is actually superior to the AMLogic S905's which means the Kodi interface is snappier.

I would try flashing this to a Samsung EVO, Sandisk or Lexar 300x microSDHC card first:

S802/S812-Libreelec images for 7/8/x

Why do I say this. Well I've spent a couple of days running LibreELEC Kodi Krypton on a pretty ancient AML S805 - ODROID C1 and its actually smoother and faster than the S905's I have running LibreELEC. Works really well with a MINIX A2 Lite remote.

Then there is this from MINIX:

X8-H PLUS Lollipop RC2 firmware (July 2017)

[magister]

I own a Minix 8H & it has come to the end of its useful life.
The question now is should I get a Minix 9H or should I get a

Unless you really really need Android and before buying new Hardware realise the S812-H is still fully capable. The GPU in it is actually superior to the AMLogic S905's which means the Kodi interface is snappier.

I would try flashing this to a Samsung EVO, Sandisk or Lexar 300x microSDHC card first:

S802/S812-Libreelec images for 7/8/x

Why do I say this. Well I've spent a couple of days running LibreELEC Kodi Krypton on a pretty ancient AML S805 - ODROID C1 and its actually smoother and faster than the S905's I have running LibreELEC. Works really well with a MINIX A2 Lite remote.

Then there is this from MINIX:

X8-H PLUS Lollipop RC2 firmware (July 2017)

Are you saying the odroid C1 runs better than the C2?

[wrxtasy]

I'm saying combined with a Wireless MINIX A2 Lite remote, the speed of Kodi GUI and GUI smoothness is superior on the 8bit C1 vs the 10bit C2 for some reason, both running LibreELEC. A new user would be happy with the C2 tho. for a bit of 10bit future proofing.

In terms of raw performance numbers the C2 beats the C1 - especially when you start using 10bit 1080p/4K HEVC content.