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Re: Raspberry Pi, CuBox, or Trim-Slice?
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- Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi, CuBox, or Trim-Slice?
- From: Charlie Sanders <sanderscharlie@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:21:48 -0600
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You also might want to consider the Pandaboard, which is about $175.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard
I tried to get in on the Raspberry Pi but missed out on the first run.
I have signed up on both the supplier web sites for the next batch
when it become available.
- Charlie
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Wolfgang <wolfgangmob@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for something to get into doing something to play around with
> and have been looking at single board computer ideas, in particular there is
> the Raspberry Pi, CuBox, and Trim-Slice. Raspberry Pi is the most basic and
> costs $25-$35 and is more for learning basics, it has 256MB RAM, 700MHz CPU,
> some USB ports and and SD card slot for storage I may end up buying one
> regardless due to price. CuBox is more advanced with HDMI, Gigabit
> Eathernet, 1GB DDR3 RAM, 800MHz ARM CPU, microSDHC card slot for OS (comes
> with 2GB micro SDHC preloaded with Ubuntu) and an eSATA port all at $135
> right now, it seems a popular choice for playing with streaming, file server
> with an external HDD as it is more capable of doing 1080p. The last one
> that I've looked at is the Trim-Slice, this is the most costly at $249-$276
> for the two I'm interested in, it uses Tegra 2, it has Gigabit, 1GB DDR2
> RAM, 1GHz dual core CPU, single or dual HDMI (depends on model) comes with
> dongle for Wi-Fi 802.11n though I feel I'll be trying to make my own work,
> it has a micro SDHC and full size SDHC card slot so you can have one be
> system (comes with 4GB micro SDHC preloaded with Ubuntu). Right now just
> looking at this, and will probably wait until summer to do much with this
> idea though it would be fun to mess with in my free time.
>
> --
> "You must control your future by taking command of your present, and fixing
> and learning from your past."
>
> "When history is forgotten people don't realize when it repeats."
>
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