castalla wrote: > I'm starting to regret the Cubie purchase & it hasn't even arrived! I > guess it's because there are so few users that the development is > stalling. I stumbled on the Cubox - seems there are more enthusiastic > users and a heck of a lot more distros, including xbmc, etc. Costs a > bit more ...
You are looking at situation too narrowly. The community is the Linux on ARM community not just the Cubieboard users. The users who do the work on Cubieboiard actually have a selection of development boards - they are not dedicated to Cubieboard. Cubox is a one product company - they'll find it hard to make money unless they get a bigger community and I think they are too expensive ($160 plus vat & duty when imported). I think end user (i.e. including shipping and taxes) $100 is the price point for these devices. There are loads of the development boards ( see here for a small selection http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/low-cost-arm-boards) and new ones appear every 6 months. A development board means the user will have to a lot of work but to some this is fun and challenging. The cubieboard had the best specs of the boards at the moment - 1Gb Ram and 1Ghz processor and a SATA disk interface and separate buses for Network, USB and OTG USB unlike RaspPi. The A10 was also attractive becasue there are many A10 based Android boxes (look like AppleTV) but with an SD card will boot a specialise systems. So if another users wanted the Picoplayer - I'd suggest this as a end user soln. But Cubieboard is already out of date as there are dual & quad core boards appearing. RaspberryPI has a large base and as it is primarily educational - it will probably be largely unchanged for another 12 months possibly driving costs down further but large base will generate lots of 3rd party accessories but cannot overome some of its hardware limitations which can affect some applications (e..g. crackles on audio via USB DAC due to bad USB ehci) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
