2012-05-21, 06:09
The Mele A2000 is probably the best hardware for price/performance/power-consumption to run XBMC. If the XBMC community doesn't get behind it then they risk missing a great opportunity to replace their old XBOX or other power guzzler and space stealing PC.
It runs a Mali400 GPU which can easily do 1080p or 2160p, whilst performing most video decoding.
It's an ARM based CPU (Allwinner A10) which has latest Ubuntu 12.04 ARM repositories and kernel ready.
The Linux ARM community is getting rallied up now on this CPU and the Mele unit. The GPU that is integrated in the CPU is yet to be fully exploited on Ubuntu, which is the reason why there isn't a out of the box experience for XBMC for this device. Time is on our side.
Images:
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl...le%20a2000
Sites of interest:
http://rhombus-tech.net/
http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/28/h...based-stb/
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/ (check 'threads' of month for mele news)
Buy Point:
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/560...alers.html
It runs a Mali400 GPU which can easily do 1080p or 2160p, whilst performing most video decoding.
It's an ARM based CPU (Allwinner A10) which has latest Ubuntu 12.04 ARM repositories and kernel ready.
The Linux ARM community is getting rallied up now on this CPU and the Mele unit. The GPU that is integrated in the CPU is yet to be fully exploited on Ubuntu, which is the reason why there isn't a out of the box experience for XBMC for this device. Time is on our side.
Images:
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl...le%20a2000
Sites of interest:
http://rhombus-tech.net/
http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/28/h...based-stb/
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/ (check 'threads' of month for mele news)
Buy Point:
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/560...alers.html