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On 05/01/17 20:26, Tom via list wrote:As you know, I do have a respect for what the Pi Foundation set out to achieve. and what it does/has achieved. Unfortunately, as a silicon provider, I don't have any faith in BroadCom as a serious ARM processor vendor. Personally, I'm quite a fan of the NXP (ex-Freescale) iMX6 based boards (eg. the wandboard) and less-so the Allwinner boards (eg. banana- and orange-pis) Now granted, I know most of the vendors are based in the far east, or are relatively specialist electronics vendors, but I was intrigued to see Rapid Electronics (and I suspect CPC will follow suit) have brought one of the other "Pi variants" to a UK mass audience. Try: https://www.rapidonline.com/banana-pi-dual-core-1ghz-cpu-1gb-ddr3-dram-single-board-computer-73-6030 .. you'll see it has SATA built-on, so you can connect a 2.5" disk directly to it. And Gb ethernet iirc. Software support isn't that great (esp. compared to the R-Pi), but once you've got a kernel built, there's debian arm variants around. Of course, we can meet up with some boards and a laptop chez White Hart and have a play anytime :) Michael. |
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