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Really? It surprises me that Pi compatibility is a criteria for stuff, though I know it's popular. Are we talking pin-compatibility? AFAICT the Pi is just another linux on a single board device. It's low cost but otherwise fairly unremarkable.
The marketing has been pretty spectacular.
I'm just wondering why compatibility would be an issue. It's open source baby, we can rebuild it!
One interesting thing about the Cubieboard is the SATA port, otherwise it's very similar to a lot of other ARM boards out there (e.g. Beagleboard, Pandaboard, etc). This makes it much easier to stick a low power SSD on the device, rather than rely on a hugely slow SD card. What I'm looking forward to next are Cortex A15 boards, the first CPUs are shipping (In the new Chromebook), so hopefully we'll start seeing them…
Another board is say: https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer... With WiFi. Other alternatives are at the same site. I have a few Mali devices next up on the chopping block after I finish reversing the VideoCore IV.
I've only just stumbled across details of your efforts in the past couple of days.
I wish you every success, if you were to be successful, you would open the door to impressively cheap possibilities.
I'm sort of amused that an outfit from Shenzhen China, perhaps the worlds great manufacturing centre for options like this, is asking for US dollars to make 1000 boards, when firms like ARMJISHU can knock ARM boards out in no time and sell them cheap as chips. There's nothing that special about this that I can see. And giving loaned Chinese money back for free when they have such a massive comparative advantage seems…
OK, I've heard that's changing, but it's not Silicon Valley.
The specs seem to match the dime-in-a-dozen Allwinner A10 Chinese tablets/phones/set-top-boxes/...
I have 3 of these A10 devices, and the performance isn't that bad. It's also not great, but it's sufficient for all the things I tried with it.
Really needs to be Raspberry PI compatible to take advantage of the growing libraries.
Really? It surprises me that Pi compatibility is a criteria for stuff, though I know it's popular. Are we talking pin-compatibility? AFAICT the Pi is just another linux on a single board device. It's low cost but otherwise fairly unremarkable.
Are these by any chance built around the Allwinner A10? The specs seem to match the dime-in-a-dozen Allwinner A10 Chinese tablets/phones/set-top-boxes/... I have 3 of these A10 devices, and the performance isn't that bad. It's also not great, but it's sufficient for all the things I tried with it.
Are these by any chance built around the Allwinner A10? The specs seem to match the dime-in-a-dozen Allwinner A10 Chinese tablets/phones/set-top-boxes/... I have 3 of these A10 devices, and the performance isn't that bad. It's also not great, but it's sufficient for all the things I tried with it.
The A10's right there in the photo...
One interesting thing about the Cubieboard is the SATA port, otherwise it's very similar to a lot of other ARM boards out there (e.g. Beagleboard, Pandaboard, etc). This makes it much easier to stick a low power SSD on the device, rather than rely on a hugely slow SD card. What I'm looking forward to next are Cortex A15 boards, the first CPUs are shipping (In the new Chromebook), so hopefully we'll start seeing them…
One interesting thing about the Cubieboard is the SATA port, otherwise it's very similar to a lot of other ARM boards out there (e.g. Beagleboard, Pandaboard, etc). This makes it much easier to stick a low power SSD on the device, rather than rely on a hugely slow SD card. What I'm looking forward to next are Cortex A15 boards, the first CPUs are shipping (In the new Chromebook), so hopefully we'll start seeing them…
SATA port also means it's viable as a small NAS solution. Shame it doesn't come with gigabit Ethernet.
This is kinda cool actually. I had been looking at the ODROID-X (hardkernel.com) and various other single-board machines for a while. Whilst this isn't particularly powerful (ODROID is quad core exynos), it does have an advantage I haven't seen anywhere else - SATA. Does anyone know of any other boards that have a SATA connector?