Nothing better than buying something and see 4 yourself that all the positive reviews all over the place are bullshit, right?

Tons of positive reviews and YouTube analyses later and I bought this to replace a dead fire stick.

Found out this thing is super slow. If you use just the preloaded apps it's fine, but after I install Abt 10 streaming apps it becomes unusable.i mean it literally. it freezes, takes a couple minutes to boot and too many seconds to do anything, I couldn't watch anything on it after installing a couple apps.

Btw the Google home configuration at 1st boot didn't work with anyone's phone here, it just crashes or hangs on for a long time until it returns an error.

It took about 40 minutes to complete the apps setup, which is curious, since the only apps downloaded were Deezer and Plex.

Limiting background processes to 2 (dev options) helps a lot makes it usable again, but still the thing is slow.

Want more reasons to avoid it? Controller doesn't turn the TV on, doesn't come with batteries, it comes with no power adapter, **the power cord is way too short ** (fire tv= 1.5m / this= 30cm), etc.

Want my advice? This is the worst piece of crap I've seen that's got a Google and netflix certification on it. Don't buy it.

The Amazon fire stick leaves this shit eating dust anytime, it's just way much faster and works fine, despite me thinking FireOS and the Amazon AppStore to be inferior.

EDIT:

Amlogic S905Y4 powers this thing, I didn't know it as there's very little info out there. It's a quad core a35 CPU (slower than the a53, which is already slow),

I little monitoring wnd i found that when idling the 4 cores are constantly maxed out at 2GHz.

The CPU struggles to do its job.