[Update: Egreat A9 unboxing]
A couple of days ago we revealed the imminent launch at CES 2015 of the Egreat A9 unit, powered by Mstar MSO9180D1R.
This particular chipset is not new, several units were launched in China last year, but never quite took off overseas.
But this is about to change, as several devices were announced, and some are quite interesting:
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Egreat A9Powerful Mini PC. Egreat announced a partnership with Vidon, making the device even more interesting. |
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Zidoo X9Good looking case, (so far) regular firmware updates, custom UI interface. |
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Xtreamer Prodigy 4KAnother good looking case. Internal HDD slot. |
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Kaiboer F5One of the first Mini PC’s to use this chipset. Little to no availability outside China. |
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UYESEE T1HLess attractive case, unknown availability. |
So, which one you should choose?
Here’s a side by side comparison between the most popular Mstar MSO9180D1R Mini PC’s:
| Egreat A9 | Zidoo X9 | Xtreamer Prodigy 4K | Kaiboer F5 | |
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| Case | metal | metal | metal | metal |
| RAM | 2GB | 2GB | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory | 16GB | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB |
| Ethernet | Gigabit | Gigabit | Gigabit | Gigabit |
| Wi-fi | Dual Band | Dual Band | 802.11 b/g/n | Dual Band |
| Bluetooth | 4.0 | 4.0 | -? | yes |
| USB 2.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| USB 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| HDD Tray | yes, 3.5” | no | yes, 3.5” | no |
| HDD fan | yes | – | no | – |
| HDMI-In | yes, with PVR | yes | yes, with PVR | yes |
| Other | – VFD – Touchpanel – custom UI /EG-UI – Vidon.me partner |
– VFD – custom Zidoo UI |
– Xtreamer gui v.7 |