Hackberry A10

bueller · 23rd August 2012, 12:16 PM

Anyone seen these?

I'm very interested, throw it all in a compact case and you've got full Plex client for the living room at under $100.

IKT · 23rd August 2012, 3:36 PM

So it's a more expensive raspberry pi?

mtma · 23rd August 2012, 5:44 PM

It is, but it seems like it fixes a good about of the fundamental issues surrounding actually using the pi for more than just tinkering. The amount you could spend on making the RPi a sane package (like the port orientations and the must-have SD card for the OS) would bring you up to that level of spend fairly quickly.

Though I'm thinking that you can get rather similar if not the same specs in a package with a case and everything, so whether it's really priced correctly is another question.

bueller · 23rd August 2012, 6:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IKT

So it's a more expensive raspberry pi?

It is but when you consider you get WIFI, NAND flash and better specs all round it seems pretty worthwhile. Another thing I don't like about the Raspberry PI is the ports all over the place, would make cabling up behind a TV or something a very messy affair. At least with this once I've got it cased up I can just bolt it into the VESA mount on the rear of a TV and no-one will be any the wiser.

slobber · 23rd August 2012, 6:17 PM

I like it

SLATYE · 23rd August 2012, 6:42 PM

Looks pretty cool. Better CPU (ARM Cortex-A8 vs ARM11), more RAM, better port layout (seems to be the biggest annoyance for most people), NAND, etc.

It'll be interesting to see how it goes. Often in this situation the second board does do better (simply because it fixes the issues that were stopping people buying the first one). However, when the first one has a massive user-base already (as the Raspberry Pi has) the community for that can sometimes outweigh any hardware advantages that the second board offers.

Anthrox · 24th August 2012, 12:48 AM

ODROID-X is better but it does cost more $129

but for a Samsung Exynos4412 Cortex-A9 Quad Core 1.4Ghz, 1GB RAM & Mali-400 i thinks its a good deal

much better for running XBMC

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_20.../prdt_info.php

bueller · 26th August 2012, 3:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anthrox

ODROID-X is better but it does cost more $129

but for a Samsung Exynos4412 Cortex-A9 Quad Core 1.4Ghz, 1GB RAM & Mali-400 i thinks its a good deal

much better for running XBMC

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_20.../prdt_info.php

Looks good but no wifi and no onboard storage are a killer for me.

23rd August 2012, 6:42 PM	#6
SLATYE SLATYE, not SLAYTE Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canberra Posts: 25,773	Looks pretty cool. Better CPU (ARM Cortex-A8 vs ARM11), more RAM, better port layout (seems to be the biggest annoyance for most people), NAND, etc. It'll be interesting to see how it goes. Often in this situation the second board does do better (simply because it fixes the issues that were stopping people buying the first one). However, when the first one has a massive user-base already (as the Raspberry Pi has) the community for that can sometimes outweigh any hardware advantages that the second board offers. __________________ Main system: Phenom II X4 920 \| 8GB (4x 2GB) DDR2-800 \| Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 v2.0 \| Leadtek Geforce 9600GSO 384MB \| Enermax Modu82+ 525W \| 1TB Hitachi HDD \| 3.5" + 5.25" FDD Laptop: Compal EL80 \| C2D T7200 \| 320GB Fujistu HDD \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| GF Go 7600

23rd August 2012, 3:36 PM	#2
IKT Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 3,399	So it's a more expensive raspberry pi?

23rd August 2012, 5:44 PM	#3
mtma Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 2,592	It is, but it seems like it fixes a good about of the fundamental issues surrounding actually using the pi for more than just tinkering. The amount you could spend on making the RPi a sane package (like the port orientations and the must-have SD card for the OS) would bring you up to that level of spend fairly quickly. Though I'm thinking that you can get rather similar if not the same specs in a package with a case and everything, so whether it's really priced correctly is another question.

24th August 2012, 12:48 AM	#7
Anthrox Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: South Australia, Adelaide Posts: 36	ODROID-X is better but it does cost more $129 but for a Samsung Exynos4412 Cortex-A9 Quad Core 1.4Ghz, 1GB RAM & Mali-400 i thinks its a good deal much better for running XBMC http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_20.../prdt_info.php