So I came across this the other day, looking to see if there was an ARM board that had more then 4 cores and also Gigabit network port:
Odroid-XU4 board * SoC = Samsung Exynos5422 Cortex™-A15 2Ghz and Cortex™-A7 Octa core CPU ( aka 4x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 2.0GHz, 4x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.4GHz ) * Mali-T628 MP6(OpenGL ES 3.0/2.0/1.1 and OpenCL 1.1 Full profile) * 2Gbyte LPDDR3 RAM PoP stacked * eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage * 2 x USB 3.0 Host, 1 x USB 2.0 Host * Gigabit Ethernet port * HDMI 1.4a for display Odroid-XU4 Wiki (information) It's specs are good enough to run Ubuntu-Mate desktop as my main home control point desktop. At $75 ( US distributor with Power adapter and cooling fan ) it seems too good to be true, so I'm wondering what's the catch? I would also get the 8Gb eMMC module/card ($26), then use a SanDisk Ultra 64GB UHS-I/Class 10 Micro SDXC ( $24-$35 @ Amazon ) as non-OS storage. Also the Serial adapter, you need this if you want to install the OS yourself ( I demoed the process in my lighting talk about TTY0 and the Linux kernel ) Just polling the group before I plunk down the Visa card, anyone have any bad experiences or know of any reason this is not a good deal? Joe /** Joseph T Apuzzo ** Developer, Admin: Cloud & Storage ** ** http://www.linkedin.com/in/japuzzo/ ** http://telegram.me/japuzzo ** ** PGP/GPG Key ID# 0xA16E26CF ** FingerPrint: 19A8 44EC F650 782B 6770 BF0E 2DAA 3D75 A16E 26CF **/
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