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Given the title I was expected a comparison with the Raspberry Pi.
by lttlrck 12y ago
Given the title I was expected a comparison with the Raspberry Pi.
- mschuster91 12y agoPerformance-wise, everything is better than a RPi, simply because the Pi's design is (iirc) 2 years old. Seriously, I'd have nothing against a i/o compatible RPi Model C with a state-of-the-art chipset, gbit ethernet directly wired into the SoC and maaaybe even on-board WiFi/GSM. It's time for an update...
- Joeboy 12y agoWhy not just get one of the many slightly better but more expensive RPi competitors, and keep the Pi (almost) standard? The Pi was never state of the art. IMO losing the standardness in return for better performance would be a poor trade.
- mschuster91 12y agoAs long as the HW interface is the same (i.e. all connectors at the same place, same pinout) and the SW interface stays the same (e.g. GPIOs mapped at the same places), then you could just drop in a "RPi C" and have vastly bigger resources at your hand.
- Narishma 12y agoThankfully, the RPi foundation has no plans to release a better RPi anytime soon.
- pjc50 12y agoThe idea that everything more than 2 years old is obsolete is funny to me; itself it's rather 90s, when you really did get big jumps in capability every year. Pi are dependent on Broadcom's SOC plans. They're also determined to keep the cost low. Onboard wifi or bluetooth is concievable, although incurs extra CE approval work costs and there will be the usual complaining about binary blobs. Onboard GSM would be an approvals nightmare and imposes more constraints on the power supply.
- mark-r 12y agoThe title was just link-bait. At nearly 3x the price of the Pi and lacking the breadth of support, it's not a "Raspberry Pi Alternative" at all, just another in a long history of single board computers.