Hi Stefan,
On Aug 22, 2012 5:24 PM, "Stefan Roese" sr@denx.de wrote:
Hi Graeme,
On 08/21/2012 02:29 PM, Graeme Russ wrote:
http://www.j1nx.nl/xbmc-amlogic-8726-m-pivos-xios-an-initial-investigation/
Thanks for the link. Looks like it uses the same GPU (Mali 400) as the AllWinner A10
The Geniatech Enjoy TV series looks pretty good, particularly the
ATV1000:
http://geniatech.com/pa/atv1000.asp
I can get an ATV1000 for ~AU$135 with:
- 800MHz Cortex A9 (not sure if it's the dual-core AML8726-MX or the single core AML8726-M1)
- A remote
- 2x external USB
- A nicer looking case (going by the photos)
- No SATA connection
- Better FOSS support (?)
I can get a Mele A2000 for ~AU$100 with:
- 1GHz Cortex A8 Allwinner A10
- No Remote
- 3x External USB
- A not so nice looking case
- SATA
- Worse FOSS support (?)
Oh the agony :(
Considering it will probably be turned into a disk-less Linux
workstation
in a couple of years, I'm leaning towards the ATV1000 (no need for SATA)
Thoughts?
As mentioned before, my focus is on XBMC support. The AmLogic seems to be more promising right now. I personally would go with a 1GiB board (not sure if really needed). The ATV310B looks good:
I ended up ordering a Mele A2000 w/ Remote & Debug Adapter. It came back to the fact that I was after a device to hack, not simply run XBMC. The Mele devices look like they are more hackable and the native SATA gives me one more part to play with :). And I think Allwinner will eventually come good on the VPU libraries.
http://www.geniatech.com/pa/atv310.asp
For ~ 120,- US$.
Got the A2000 for AU$140 delivered
Thanks for all the advice,
Regards,
Graeme