The 2GB Ceiling: Is Gemini the End of the Road for the Onn Streaming Devices?
The Walmart Onn 4K box has long been the darling of the cord-cutting community. At a price point that makes it almost disposable, it delivered a lean, snappy Google TV experience that punched far above its weight. But as 2026 rolls on, a purple shadow is falling over these devices: Gemini. As Google pushes its AI upgrade across the ecosystem, we are reaching a breaking point where software ambition meets hardware reality. For the standard Onn box, that reality is capped at 2GB of RAM. The Ghost of Fire TV Past If you have been a cord-cutter for more than a few years, you remember the Fire TV Stutter. Early Fire Sticks were great for six months, but then came the updates. Amazon layered on more ad-tracking, auto-playing video previews, and background discovery features that the entry-level chips simply could not handle. The result? Navigating the home screen felt like wading through molasses. You would press a button on the remote, wait three seconds for the cursor to move, and ev...
