On 29 May 2014 17:51, Rob Malpass <li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > I must admit £120 is a bit steep but I guess if it contains everything and > is basically plug and play – fair enough. Just wondered if anyone had > tried it and noticed any performance issues. > > Raspberry PIs do run XBMC.... but they really are rather slow (even rendering and navigating through the menus was too slow for me for regular use). Much better to get it running on an Atom net-top machine at the least.
The price is a little steep if you consider that you can buy the components for around £50, and install XBMC in a matter of minutes - a task that hopefully a LUG list subscriber wouldn't baulk at. But *if* your time is very precious to you, and you don't want the hassle of sourcing everything, then maybe the extra price is worth paying to save you the effort (although I would probably still reinstall XBMC... I wouldn't trust an OS installed and configured by someone on eBay...). For the same price you could get a decent wireless keyboard (if the XBMC remote app on your phone or an iPad isn't an option you have), and a 2nd hand Acer Revo, a little SSD to shoehorn into it, and the pleasure of a Saturday afternoon fiddling around with it all :-)
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