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| From | Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi |
| Subject | Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? |
| Date | 2015-09-08 00:44 +0000 |
| Organization | none-at-all |
| Message-ID | <slrnmusbro.8i7.spamtrap42@one.localnet> (permalink) |
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On 2015-09-06, James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote in message
> news:mshq3j$jbd$1@dont-email.me...
>> "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:msh8kn$f8v$1@dont-email.me...
>>> "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:msh73i$a2b$1@dont-email.me...
>
>>>> Google for, "Orange Pi".
>
> ...
>
>>> The board looks interesting - some definite enhancements compared to
>>> the Raspbery Pi, and for a similar price. Shipping from China looks
>>> quite slow.
>>> IIRC there are a few of these competitors to the Raspberry Pi. I
>>> wonder if the competition will affect spec or price of the Pi we know
>>> and love.
>>
>> Perhaps the one killer interface is the SATA one?
>
> As for whether that is a killer or not I don't know. I suppose like all
> these things the SATA port is brilliant if you need it and unnecessary
> if you don't.
>
> Would you add a SATA drive? If so, what for?
>
> From what I saw it looked as though the SATA drive would be powered from
> the Orange Pi, which was a little surprising given the presumed current
> required to spin a drive - but welcome, if true. IIRC the input power
> was 5V at 2A.
>
> I confess I could do with seeing a table of the Raspberry Pi models and
> various similar machines alongside each other for comparison. If I had a
> suitable web site I would add a page to it. (I do have update access to
> some web sites but such a comparison table would not fit content-wise.)
>
> James
Wikipedia has comparison tables for certain microprocessors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_processors
A similar comparison table for fruit Pi machines would seem to be
as appropriate.
--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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A new (and better?) kid on the block? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:14 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 12:40 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-09-06 17:38 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-06 18:13 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 18:27 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 18:20 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-09-08 00:44 +0000
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2015-09-08 18:18 +0200
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 18:23 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-13 12:37 +0100
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-13 11:39 -0400
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 11:45 -0400
Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-13 17:45 +0100
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