Really needs to be Raspberry PI compatible to take advantage of the growing libraries.
Being as the A10 is armv7, it's already possible to run more on it than on the Pi. Let us move forward, not backward.
Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
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Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#62One 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…
I didn't realize there was a significant speed difference between SD and SSD technology! After some googling, I found a good video that gives the relevant figures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxAQv_KDV0 In short, the class 10 SD card I got for my Raspberry Pi is rated for 10MB/s. An SSD drive can do 1GB/S (I imagine the numbers vary for reads vs writes). Also, SD cards seem to be able to take a lot fewer writes p…
To be fair, a class 10 SD card could be ten times faster than the figure you quoted. Still a big difference, of course, and I imagine there are some write queueing feature differences as well.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#63I am looking for a portable i386 compatible chip&board instead of ARM for running windows programs (wine doesn't work on arm), does anyone have tips?
There's tons of book-sized systems available, typically with lower-end AMD or Intel chips. Throw in a DDR2/3 SODIMM and a SATA drive and you're good to go. These start around $100.
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205...
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#64I've looked at the Cubieboard in the past, its an interesting take.
What strikes me though about this, the Pandaboard, the Chumby, Etc, is that one of the effects of the 'post PC' momentum shift is that people who were building general purpose computers have switched to building these things which are tailored more for browsing and content consumption, and perhaps business content (documents, spreadsheets, reports) generation.
That shift has once again opened up the market for a general purpose hobbiest computer. That is pretty refreshing to see.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#65Reflecting about all this, I find the rpi design curious. Most of the SoC is wasted and impose heavy side effects (lan over capricious usb). The graphical applications (video processing, etc) seems to be limited by what is already in the GPU blob.
Honest question, isn't there more simple SoC (armv6 + basic 2d gpu) with sane default and i/o chipsets ?
How much of the closed source binary is due to the GPU ?
With a simpler and open source system, I think it would have provided a better learning substrate than what it is now.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#66I am looking for a portable i386 compatible chip&board instead of ARM for running windows programs (wine doesn't work on arm), does anyone have tips?
There's a few companies that make "pico-ITX" boards that run x86 processors [1]. Mostly low powered chips like Atom, but you can get Core 2 Duo boards if you've got the cash. Prices started around $300 last time I checked. [1] http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/meng/wmr/projects/uav/...
Does anyone know the exact model of board in that photo? Clicking around their site yielded only images, and sadly little text.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#67One 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.
Hey napierzaza, you've been hell banned.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#68Don't fall for the Mali/A10. Constant, repeated disappointment.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#69This 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?
Nitrogen6X and SABRE Light do (http://boundarydevices.com/products/), and should be $200 in a week.
Wandaboard (http://www.wandboard.org/) should have a SATA connector on future configurations, but nothing concrete has been announced.
Re: Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM
#70One 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…
I didn't realize there was a significant speed difference between SD and SSD technology! After some googling, I found a good video that gives the relevant figures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxAQv_KDV0 In short, the class 10 SD card I got for my Raspberry Pi is rated for 10MB/s. An SSD drive can do 1GB/S (I imagine the numbers vary for reads vs writes). Also, SD cards seem to be able to take a lot fewer writes p…
It's quite significant. SD card is fine for the hacker community though. They have different intentions I suppose. SD cards weren't really designed for OS (particularly if you forget to disable a pagefile which will constantly write old memory to "disk" and drastically shorten its life)