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[sunrat]

Need something a bit beefier than Raspberry Pi? This one looks like it could do serious work, maybe a fully fledged media centre?
http://www.tomshardw...line,16293.html

There are a couple of other new boards that look interesting in this Computerworld post.

[crp]

I don't understand that price point. You can get Mini ITX Motherboards for less than $100

[ross549]

Mini ITX motherboards with a quad core processor? And built in RAM?

Adam

[crp]

ross549, on 16 July 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

Mini ITX motherboards with a quad core processor? And built in RAM?

Adam

ahh, okay, got it then. I was thrown off by the OS option being only Android.

[ross549]

Most of these devices, from what I've seen, have options other than Android. The Raspberry Pi, however, seems to be the most flexible with OS options.

Adam

[LilBambi]

Great little board.

[sunrat]

ross549, on 16 July 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

Most of these devices, from what I've seen, have options other than Android. The Raspberry Pi, however, seems to be the most flexible with OS options.

From Geek.com:

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Android is supported out of the box, but Ubuntu 12.04 (and presumably other ARM-compatible distributions) run just fine.

There are a few optional bits available from the manufacturer site, such as Bluetooth and WiFi modules.

[crp]

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(and presumably other ARM-compatible distributions)

Windows8 RT ?

Edited by crp, 16 July 2012 - 09:38 PM.

[sunrat]

crp, on 16 July 2012 - 09:38 PM, said:

Windows8 RT ?

Haha, have to wait for the UEFI Secure Boot jailbreak hacks for that.

[sunrat]

Here's another interesting "developer platform" with dual-core Texas Instruments ARM A9 processors - Pandaboard It was reported on the LAU list to effectively run Qtractor with synth plugins on Ubuntu 12.04 and Fluxbox.
It's been around for a while according to Wikipedia and is rather more expensive than the latest offerings, although it's specs are rather good comparatively.

[Temmu]

sunrat, on 16 July 2012 - 10:13 PM, said:

Haha, have to wait for the UEFI Secure Boot jailbreak hacks for that.

you'll be able to download the pre-hacked version from pirate bay.
(of course, 82.5% of your cpu cycles are belong to russian hacker.)

[crp]

anybody here have hands on experience with giada mini-pc ?

[sunrat]

crp, on 16 August 2012 - 01:34 AM, said:

anybody here have hands on experience with giada mini-pc ?

Looks like a great HTPC or desktop if you don't play the latest games, and reasonable value at $520 for the basic Core i5 model. Efficient too; my graphics card uses about 8 times the power of this whole PC.