[fpc-other] Orange Pi vs. Raspberry Pi vs Banana Pi vs ASUS Tinkerboard vs. Odroid

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 08/03/17 10:14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> On 07/03/17 19:30, noreply at z505.com wrote:
>>> On 02/03/2017 23:54, Paul Robinson wrote:> >> There are five
>>> similar "Altoids tin-sized" single board processors>> I'm aware
>>> of.>> >> The Raspberry Pi , The Orange Pi, The Banana Pi, The
>>> ODROID, and the>> ASUS Tinkerboard. The Tinkerboard is sometimes
>>> referred to as the>> Maker Board.
>> There are also more open source based ones like BeagleBone. There
>> is also the $9 "chip" computer Not sure if these count as altoids,
>> never heard that before :-)
> 
> American brand :-)
> http://hackaday.com/2017/02/15/piminimint-altoids-rpi-zero-computer/
> 
> 
>> Beagle bone is more expensive, but more open sourced
> 
> Particularly notable due to a couple of DSP-like processors which
> make it good for high-speed stuff. However unlike the main processor
> I believe these have to be programmed in assembler.
> 
Didn't first (single-core) series of RasPI had similar 'theme' ?

with its 'small' ARM processor runs the OS and programs, and the 'massive'
'Vision' (hence I think, graphics centered) one is just idling
(actually kickstarting the ARM core at boot time only)  ?


-L.