I can see it function as a HTPC.
Personally, I wouldn't buy it.
RasPi would also function neatly as a HTPC and only costs like 50 ish quid.
Uhm, yeah, Raspberry Pi is infinitely weaker while the Piston is comparable to a desktop PC.
RasPi might not be that strong, but it'll still function neatly as a HTPC.
XBMC would run fairly on it with 1080p video's
That's great, but the Piston was designed as a high-performance gaming machine in a tiny box... meaning exactly what the Raspberry Pi isn't.
RasPi works as a HTPC >:c
And I wasn't talking about gaming tho.
If I where to get that for gaming, I'd rather build me own PC.
So that I can still upgrade hardware later on.
Well, you can upgrade the Piston as well... naturally it's also infinitely worse than a home-made PC with wicked specs.
All I was saying was that the two devices are in completely different sectors of the industry, hence the rather large price gap.
At the end of the day, their just machines made to run an OS.
I'd still take a RasPi over a Piston.
Well, of course - each to their own. I'd take neither - I'd build an actual beefy HTPC myself instead.
Well, you can upgrade the Piston as well... naturally it's also infinitely worse than a home-made PC with wicked specs.