The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
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Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#2Wow, they're down to $50 now? I remember seeing these and thinking they looked cool, but hard to justify at (iirc) $80.
The ODroid-C2 is also mentioned; those look nice. That company also sells raw EMMC modules as an alternative option to microSD cards, which seems like it could be useful. Does anyone know if those EMMC modules are less likely to spuriously corrupt themselves? I haven't run them for any length of time, but it looks like an ODroid with EMMC would be on a similar price point.
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#3Wow, they're down to $50 now? I remember seeing these and thinking they looked cool, but hard to justify at (iirc) $80. The ODroid-C2 is also mentioned; those look nice. That company also sells raw EMMC modules as an alternative option to microSD cards, which seems like it could be useful. Does anyone know if those EMMC modules are less likely to spuriously corrupt themselves? I haven't run them for any length of tim…
I own an ODROID-XU3. Haven’t used it for a while now but back when I did — including using it as desktop computer for several months — I did not have any data corruption issues with the eMMC module. Meanwhile with Raspberry Pi I’ve had several instances of data corruption with different SD cards.
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#4Also of note:
Tinkerboard has b/g/n 2.4Ghz wifi. Pi 3B+ also has 802.11ac 5Ghz wifi.
Tinkerboard has a superior sound chip, supporting 24-bit, 192kHz audio. Pi 3B+ has a totally garbage mono only analog sound (and presumably fine HDMI digital sound).
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#5Their website is confusing on this part, does this support Windows IoT Core as the OS?
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#6I don't know. I think I take the Hackaday view that the software and community is way more important than the hardware in this field, and Raspberry Pi has it all.
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#7Wow, they're down to $50 now? I remember seeing these and thinking they looked cool, but hard to justify at (iirc) $80. The ODroid-C2 is also mentioned; those look nice. That company also sells raw EMMC modules as an alternative option to microSD cards, which seems like it could be useful. Does anyone know if those EMMC modules are less likely to spuriously corrupt themselves? I haven't run them for any length of tim…
I own an ODROID-XU3. Haven’t used it for a while now but back when I did — including using it as desktop computer for several months — I did not have any data corruption issues with the eMMC module. Meanwhile with Raspberry Pi I’ve had several instances of data corruption with different SD cards.
The eMMC for me is worth the price. Too many corrupt SD cards.
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#8There are plenty of boards that are much more powerful than the RPi and have comparable price (ODROID-C2 comes to mind). But the devil is in wether or not they run the mainline Linux kernel.
I have several ODROID-C2 that I have replaced with RPis because of the poor hardware support (Amlogic kernel was way late at the time, may still is).
Stick to mainline.
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#9Wow, they're down to $50 now? I remember seeing these and thinking they looked cool, but hard to justify at (iirc) $80. The ODroid-C2 is also mentioned; those look nice. That company also sells raw EMMC modules as an alternative option to microSD cards, which seems like it could be useful. Does anyone know if those EMMC modules are less likely to spuriously corrupt themselves? I haven't run them for any length of tim…
The Tinkerboard was introduced about a year ago for $60.
Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
#10Unfortunately this is not aarch64. There is something to be said for having a single instruction set, makes package building and distribution simpler.