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Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Clones
I love my pi as a media center, the only thing I'd like is for it to have a little bit more speed - I find the CPU gets maxed quite easily. Does anyone have any experience with the pi clones out there, such as HummingBoard or Banana Pi? Any recommendations?
- dragonbonheur 12y agoIf you're using the Pi as a media center only, maybe you should consider products like the MK808 which often have Linux ports?
- colinramsay 12y agoHow's its video output?
- opless 12y agoHave a look at the Cubieboard, and the PCDuino - But be aware many on ebay are based on the A10 which at 1GHz are reasonably quick, the newer ones (hence more expensive) are based on the A20 and more development is done on those these days. The two boards above have lots of GPIO and some revisions have a SATA socket too so you can hook up a laptop drive. They all have real (not usb) ethernet ports, and can drive their USB ports with a sensible amount of juice, unlike the PI. Links? No, I trust you can google the terms :) The MK8xx devices all seem to be A10s (but that might have changed now)
- colinramsay 12y agoI'll have a look at the Cubieboard, thanks!
- opless 12y agoAdditional, the beaglebone black is a nice board too ... but unfortunately there has been upwards of six months with no supply. I did see an announcement of a feature-limited clone, but it's not appeared on my radar since. If you still have your sights on a cubieboard, take a look at cubian ... a debianish distro.