With lots of 64bit ARM chips coming to the market in the near future, I would wait just a little bit more.
It's cheap enough that one could still get their money's worth out of this while waiting, though :)
ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer
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#32what display outputs does it have? I didn't see any in the summary, which makes this a different market than the raspberry pi
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#33Anybody make something similar with dual ethernet? I'd like to replace my aging Alix-based home router/vpn ( http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm ) with something like this.
Try the PCEngines APU board! http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
The only downside is it uses Realtek NICs instead of Intel ones. Otherwise it's pretty much perfect.
Re: ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer
#34Anybody make something similar with dual ethernet? I'd like to replace my aging Alix-based home router/vpn ( http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm ) with something like this.
You can stick an USB NIC or two in it, if 100M ethernet is enough.
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#35With lots of 64bit ARM chips coming to the market in the near future, I would wait just a little bit more.
This board only has 1GB RAM and no support for fast secondary storage (only USB2) so having 64bit address space would provide little benefit.
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#36Their technical details page seems to push eMMC pretty hard but their prices, 64GB for $80 [1], seem really high compared to a microSD card. Can anyone with experience comment on whether the eMMC has anywhere near the value for its price?
[1] http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G14...
Re: ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer
#37With lots of 64bit ARM chips coming to the market in the near future, I would wait just a little bit more.
This board only has 1GB RAM and no support for fast secondary storage (only USB2) so having 64bit address space would provide little benefit.
I'm sure there are other advantages to AArch64, like a larger set of registers, that could still make it worthwhile. At the very least it might push down the prices on the old armv7 CPUs.
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#38I wonder what kind of "license issues" are present in the current software?
"U-boot/Kernel/Linux source code will be released 15-Dec-2014. Android source code will be published in February after cleaning some license issues."
Looks like the biggest problem with most of these ARM boards (raspberry pi included) is the dependency on some closed-source binary blobs, at least for boot, and sometimes even the entire kernel is a closed branch off some old release.
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#39Their technical details page seems to push eMMC pretty hard but their prices, 64GB for $80 [1], seem really high compared to a microSD card. Can anyone with experience comment on whether the eMMC has anywhere near the value for its price? [1] http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G14...
I bought a Odroid-U3 and pretty often the bottleneck was on the microSD card so I grew tired of it and I bought a eMMC 64gb and it gets the job done. It is way faster than the best microSD if that is what you were wondering.
Re: ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer
#40Their technical details page seems to push eMMC pretty hard but their prices, 64GB for $80 [1], seem really high compared to a microSD card. Can anyone with experience comment on whether the eMMC has anywhere near the value for its price? [1] http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G14...
Some eMMC modules claim 150MB/s read/write; i.e. same speed as hard drives from about 5-7 years ago. Or put another way approximately twice as fast as an average USB3 flash drive.