10 December 2015, 00:30 | #1 |
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And now have 64-bit computers for <$20...
Raspberry Pi is getting some competition..
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...d-super-comput Right now the kickstarter has $100k more than they asked for. If only they used that cash to buy the OS3x license and let the porting begin ;-) |
10 December 2015, 08:03 | #2 |
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10 December 2015, 10:38 | #3 |
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The thing is, this is nothing groundbreaking - they're just making a Pi clone, slapping on a Chinese SoC (which can be bought for $1) and calling it a day.
Even the Pi Foundation could do the same, but they focus on quality products using respectable manufacturers (Broadcom) instead of just going for specs by buying dirt-cheap stuff nobody would ever trust in production environments. Also, what makes the Pi truly exceptional is the community and support behind it. |
10 December 2015, 11:14 | #4 |
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Great specs and price! Will keep on eye on this for sure.
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10 December 2015, 19:25 | #5 |
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THere's this Intel Atom based, Raspberry Pi form factor machine I am really interested in:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ry-pi2-form-fa Meaning you can run years and years of Windows apps on it. Really interested in this one. |
10 December 2015, 20:34 | #6 |
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Lol, just saw Pine A64 KS and article about it... it does look very interesting and promising, at fraction of cost of RPi2.
Will probably support this one... atm they are at close to 10X what they asked for. |
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I'll definitely buy one if they ever come out and will cost around ~100EURs. |
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11 December 2015, 16:26 | #8 |
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It looks good but I'd be a bit more interested if it wasn't allwinner and was hdmi 2.0. A number of ppl have already turned their noses up to it on the Kodi forum, and a board like this lives and dies by the support it receives.
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Even at $120 I'd get it, it'd be awesome to replace my RPi media center becasue the speed will definitely make a difference. although my RPi runs OK with Kodi, sometimes it just chokes, and database search operations take forever (I have a gigantic library of music). |
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11 December 2015, 20:27 | #10 |
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ASRock D1800M - 50E, ASRock QC5000M - 60E, Sapphire Pure White Fusion E350 - 60E and many many more... even adding memory and some other components still we can have better and more open HW (main problem of many ARM based SoC is a closed graphics driver usually also very poor in term of quality).
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11 December 2015, 21:24 | #11 |
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This is interesting if it runs the same software as the RPI. I only use mine with retropie, so that running on a faster device would be cool
There's also more support for Android.. so.... I may back this |
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I doubt very much that it'll run raspberry pi distros.
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tl;dr You can now see why everyone likes ARM boards |
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14 December 2015, 11:57 | #15 |
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Most of these ARM boards are cheap, but far from exciting. It's just a combination of the cheapest chips available. Also the design of the RPi is bad (I have a dozen of them). The network and USB ports cannot even trigger interrupts, but have to be polled, wasting 20% of the possible performance!
The development of the last years, which gave ARM an unhealthy market share in the embedded market, is certainly not good. Again, there have been much better CPUs, but in the future we will be left without any choice, as in the desktop market, which is dominated by x86. |
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Overall add on top 30 - 40$ and you can run everything you wish where on ARM it is somehow reduced. Well - blame CPU design - long pipeline and large cache prevent to use interrupts - polling is simply more efficient. |
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Have people seen there are now some quite cheap X86 computers on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ref=nav_search https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ref=nav_search The LattePanda seems to have a better CPU. And with 3 USB's you can plug in Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick without needing a hub. Would be great for WinUAE. |
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It's kinda funny how they only asked for $3000 for the Jaguar board...
Maybe we should let those guys build Amiga stuff ;-) |
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