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Could the Intel Edison be used to make a laptop?
by spraak 10y ago
Could the Intel Edison be used to make a laptop?
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoIt has no video hardware, so it couldn't drive a monitor / panel for a laptop. It's more like an Arduino than it's like an RPi.
- spraak 10y agoAh ok, I missed that, thanks for explaining!
- tigeba 10y agoSorry for being pedantic here, but despite lack of video hardware I would argue it has a lot more in common with the PI than an Arduino. It runs Yocto Linux and you can pretty much use the full suite of Linux tools to program it.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoThat's fair, I didn't mean to suggest that it wasn't a general-purpose computer running Linux, just that it wasn't really built to be used as a desktop. That said, I'd personally choose an RPi Zero W (which isn't much larger, costs 1/5th the price, and can drive a monitor, if you need it to).
- Nexxxeh 10y agoIt could also be run headlessly and combined with a Pi. The Edison running an X client (server) or RDP server, the Pi connecting into it.
- tlack 10y agoblackbird_tm is right that there is no high-res display capability, but if you are ok with alternative methods of interaction, such as audio, OLED display, VNC, web, etc., it could be used as a "computing device." You could also use a USB video card from what I've heard, but of course that would be a rather lame laptop. It has a fair amount of storage, decent CPU, and runs Linux well in my experience.