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All this talk has made me glad to pay the premium to stay with x86/amd64 supported boards. I've been buying PC-Engines for years, and run whatever I please on t

by DrPhish 10y ago

All this talk has made me glad to pay the premium to stay with x86/amd64 supported boards. I've been buying PC-Engines for years, and run whatever I please on them (but mostly OpenBSD). They are 3x the price of the RPi (more if you want WiFi, bluetooth etc), but for certain applications, are quite a bit more powerful and flexible. This is especially true if you want to remain up to date for years. I have never been left without an upgrade path. https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm https://pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4 https://pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4

chx 10y ago
There's the UP board now, Cherry Trail Atom in a RasPi format, and the UP Squared (Apollo Lake, Altera Max 10 (2K) right,physically about double the RasPi) in Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/802007522/up-squared-the-first-maker-board-with-intel-apollo https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/802007522/up-squared-th... . If not for boards, I just bought this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019Z8T9J0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019Z8T9J0 complete, passive PC for less $150, it has four Ethernet ports and a HDMI and a Broadwell (not Atom!) CPU. It's rather incredible how cheap PCs gotten.