bpa wrote: > 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 already out of date as there are dual & quad core boards appearing ( > e.g. > http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/07/11/hardkernel-odroid-x-low-cost-exynos-4412-quad-core-cortex-a9-development-board/ > http://boundarydevices.com/products/nitrogen6x-board-imx6-arm-cortex-a9-sbc/ > ). > > 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)
Thanks for the remarks. I'm also struggling to get bluetooth working with squeezelite - it works (sort of) but if I start the bluetoooth output as a second process there's immediately crackle interterence on the bt speaker. But that's a different story! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
