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Nathan Willis from LWN.net wrote review of OpenELEC 5 in 2015: “ As far as XBMC goes, it surely shows a lot of potential, and I'm rather pleased with openELEC. If you think your investment in the Pi and openELEC is worth the difference in price toward a fully featured smart TV or a home media center, then you should definitely spend more time tweaking and taming this little box. Receptionsĭedoimedo reviewed openELEC in 2014: “

The first-generation Xtreamer Ultra uses Nvidia Ion chipset with a 1.80 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D525 CPU, while the Xtreamer Ultra 2 uses discrete GeForce GT 520M graphics with a 2.13 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D2700 CPU. Xtreamer Ultra and Xtreamer Ultra 2, manufactured by the South Korean company Unicorn Information Systems, are nettops based on Nvidia graphics and Intel Atom processors and pre-installed OpenELEC and Kodi software. Pulse-Eight sells both custom and off the shelf hardware products primarily designed for Kodi, such as remote controls, HTPC systems and accessories, including a HTPC PVR set-top-box pre-installed with Kodi that they call ' PulseBox' Pulse-Eight also offers free performance tuned embedded versions of Kodi that they call Pulse, which is based on OpenELEC and a custom PVR-build of Kodi meant to run on dedicated HTPC systems. They also announced plans to provide further builds for the ARCTIC MC001 systems on their next release. On 5 February 2013, OpenELEC announced that they had jointly developed, with Arctic, a manufacturer of computer cooling systems based in Switzerland, a passively cooled entertainment system – the MC001 media centre, based on the Kodi 12 (OpenELEC 3.0) platform. Builds are currently available for x86-64 systems (as 'Generic Build'), Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3 and the first generation Apple TV. And since version 6, x86 builds are deprecated too. Since 2014, specifics builds supporting a set of Graphics/GPU chipsets (ION, Fusion, Intel.) are deprecated. Since 2011, the OpenELEC team usually releases a new major version, following the Kodi release schedule. OpenELEC is an extremely small and very fast-booting Linux based distribution, primarily designed to boot from flash memory card such as CompactFlash or a solid-state drive, similar to that of the XBMCbuntu (formerly XBMC Live) distribution but specifically targeted to a minimum set-top box hardware setup based on an ARM SoCs or Intel x86 processor and graphics.

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OpenELEC provides a complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of Kodi and third-party addons with retro video game console emulators and DVR plugins. In March 2016, OpenELEC was forked after 'creative differences', taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project. OpenELEC 4.0 also switched its init system to systemd. The OpenELEC team released OpenELEC 4.0 on, and this version features updated XBMC 13.0 with further updated important parts of the operating system as well as the Linux kernel updated to version 3.14 and additional device drivers. OpenELEC disk images for the Raspberry Pi series and Freescale i.MX6 based devices are also available. It is designed to consume relatively few resources and to boot quickly from flash memory. OpenELEC applies the ' just enough operating system' principle. OpenELEC (short for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a discontinued Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs and based on the Kodi (formerly XBMC) media player.

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I wonder how long it takes for someone to figure out how to hack and add internal support anyway.8.0.4 / 4 June 2017 5 years ago ( ) Considering all the expansion options on the 16GB (USB and SD) - you could literally add 1.5TB External USB 3.0 HDD for $90 AUD.

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I'll probably order the remote as an accessory.Īs for 16gb/500gb I don't see much point in buying the Pro for +$100 USD. It's a shame the standard remote isn't er, 'standard' :) Seems like an odd choice but obviously margins play a role and nVidia pushing the gaming side of things.

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Is there any other type of gaming, like can you just play some standard Google Play games, ie: non-intensive stuff that won't require the massive bandwidth of GRID, or is it just GRID & PC modes available?

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PC Streaming is still an option, though I'll need to upgrade my video card (another expense) GRID Gaming is completely out for me, I'm stuck with slow ADSL2+. I've since answered some of my gaming questions. Desite the main purpose of me buying this is for media playing (my WDTV simply isn't keeping up with technology anymore) I'm also a little interested in the gaming side of things, I guess because my 'media player budget' is around $150, so if games are something I never touch, it's a little out of my league… (the things an OzBargain'er will do to justify a new toy, right?)

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