[ale] Raspberry Pi & MicroCenter

[gmane.mazilo at spamgourmet.com]

I don't have nor am using any Android GoogleTV USB dongle, yet. However, I
would appreciate if you could share with us the brand/model of
overheated devices and where you purchased them from, may be we all can try
to avoid buying them in the future.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Jason van Gumster -
jason at handturkeystudios.com <
gmane.mazilo.ab920a9d20.jason#handturkeystudios.com at ob.0sg.net> wrote:

>
> gmane.mazilo at spamgourmet.com wrote:
>
> > If you do a google search, I am sure you will find a lot of hits.
> However,
> > I mostly order my computer related product from
> > AliExpress<http://www.aliexpress.com>.
> > You will find lots of Android GoogleTV USB dongles there (from single
> core
> > to quad-core ARM CPU) that they sometimes refer to as mini PC.
>
> As a former owner of one of these miniPC GoogleTV devices, I would advise
> at
> least a modicum of caution. Perhaps it was just the unit I had, but I
> regularly
> experienced overheating problems and either video or network drop-outs
> (possibly as a consequence of the overheating) that made regular usage a
> non-starter.
>
> Was a shame, too. There's a lot of potential packed into those things. I
> figure
> I'll wait another development cycle and see if the issues I experienced are
> resolved. Of course, if I was just simply doing something wrong and other
> folks
> have experience with perfectly working devices, I'd love to hear that, too.
>
>   -Jason
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