Android HTPC

[Nitrocrusher]

Hopefully this might be the best place to ask this. I've been doing a lot of research and need some help in deciding which unit you guys might prefer. I don't need anything powerful (ie i5 with 8gb of ram, just basic stuff).

1) Equiso Smart TV Equiso Smart TV - Make your dumb tv... smart. by Equiso Smart TV — Kickstarter

2) G-Box Midnight G-Box Midnight | Android TV Box.us

or

3) G-Box Dyno (MK802 "Killer") G-Box Dyno | Android TV Box.us

Let me know what you guys think about these units. I'm not sure that I know the difference between an A5 and an A9 soc.

 

[sathishmls]

since the size of these sticks are small and mainly due to heat issues, the redesigned cortex-a5 soc is a better choice. Equiso has designed to go with Cortex-A5 and even AMD has chose to license Cortex-A5. Equiso has 8GB NAND storage and includes a 2 sided magic remote.

 

[rdb4133]

The Equiso Smart TV have started shipping and arrived to several people already. I received mine today, I'm at work so I'm just charging the remote, I'll play with it a bit more when I get home 🙂

 

[felang]

The Equiso Smart TV have started shipping and arrived to several people already. I received mine today, I'm at work so I'm just charging the remote, I'll play with it a bit more when I get home 🙂

I would really appreciate if you could give us your impressions/opinions

 

[rdb4133]

Forum member SAWYER has one as well and has posted about it on another thread here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2275825

 

[felang]

Forum member SAWYER has one as well and has posted about it on another thread here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2275825

Thanks

 

[Aikouka]

Hmm the only one I know of is the Pivos Xios, because the company partnered with XBMC. I don't know if anyone else has GPU acceleration yet (it's been awhile, so they probably do), but at XBMC's Android release, I believe the Pivos was the only GPU accelerated unit.