More on tiny ARM-based PCs

Scott Sullivan scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 27 16:22:43 UTC 2013


On 09/27/2013 11:48 AM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> On 09/27/2013 10:55 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> Given all the recent interest in Pi's and Bones, I'm curious to know if
>> anyone in TLUG has a CuBox. It's more expensive than the others, but has
>> recently gone through a significant price drop. I am especially
>> interested to know if its architecture is considered more open than the
>> Pi's, given the number of ... issues ... that exist regarding its
>> openness. One intetresting thing about it, apparently, is that since its
>> processor (Marvell) supports the ARMv7 spec it is able to run Android
>> and conventional Linux (one report claims it can run KDE, not a small
>> feat for one of these tiny things).
>
> This is likely because they have announced their next generation Cubox-I
> products. Those are based on the much more modern IMX.6 SoCs.
>
> http://cubox-i.com/
>

Other Current Gen options, in no particular order.

http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-58-mirabox-development-kit.aspx
http://docs.cubieboard.org/doku.php#a20-cubieboard
http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/main.php

At the moment the utilite and ODROID (hardkernel.com) products have my 
interest.

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