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Honest question, why would I choose this over an "old" Android phone that I already have in my drawer?
by bserge 6y ago
Honest question, why would I choose this over an "old" Android phone that I already have in my drawer?
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoThis runs a basically normal Ubuntu, which is much nicer to use than Android for many tasks. I suspect that its GPU is actually more powerful than an older Android device. And some people want to buy these new to build some sort of edge compute, in which case it's much nicer to buy something off the shelf that's supported in your usecase, cheap, and doesn't tack on hardware you don't need (touchscreen, modem) while adding hardware you do want for that situation (ethernet).
- aardvarkr 6y agoNative CUDA implementation on an Ubuntu system would be the biggest reason in my mind. There's CUDA for android but (at a glance) it didn't look stellar. It also helps that there is an active community here where everyone has the same device so if you run into issues you have somewhere to turn. Final point is NVIDIA clearly sees this as a business segment worth investing in so it will continue to grow and improve.