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Anyone seen UDOO on kickstart?
stan2323:
I ran across this on Kickstart. I am not sure how well it would work but it has 54 on board inputs. I think it would do good for most games before 1990. I have a 2.5 GHz P4 with 1 Gig of ram and it runs the games I wanted. What are your thoughts? What games do you think this will start to have problem emulating well mid 90's or early 90's?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435742530/udoo-android-linux-arduino-in-a-tiny-single-board?ref=category
Sorry if this has been posted before but I did a search and did not find UDOO anywhere I figured it was not posted yet.
Stan
Lilwolf:
Interesting little board. Would be a great little computer to run a cocktail table or bartop. I'm curious how many games it could support (and if there are any good linux frontends).
ark_ader:
Seems to be another Raspi clone that is missing the point of what the Raspi is to the education community.
$109 vs $35
I know the Raspi doesn't have all the bells and whistles that this UDOO board has, but in reality do you really need a SATA port or a quad core processor for basic programming and IO projects?
Short answer is no.
But without innovation and funding the Raspi would not exist today.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on April 29, 2013, 06:00:02 pm ---Seems to be another Raspi clone that is missing the point of what the Raspi is to the education community.
$109 vs $35
I know the Raspi doesn't have all the bells and whistles that this UDOO board has, but in reality do you really need a SATA port or a quad core processor for basic programming and IO projects?
Short answer is no.
But without innovation and funding the Raspi would not exist today.
--- End quote ---
i have the same thoughts. it appears you are just buying a (and forgive the use of the word...) "retarded" computer. for $10 each I just bought 6 IBM lenovo desktops computers (3ghz P4's with 512mb ram and no harddrives) from the gummit auction here in town.
compare that with the 1.2ghz ARM processor this thing uses. yes i know i'm comparing apples and oranges...but still. they are trying to make it "desktop like"
seems like all these guys want to do is one-up the raspberry pi even if the result is something nobody wants.
sd card for storage? pfffft SATA that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
a single ARM processor...humph....QUADCORE!!
gotta plug an Arduino on there??? Whaaaaaaaaat losers? build that crap in!
so now we basically have the equivelent of the atom computer. A computer which no one wants and falls sort on some of the most basic computing tasks.
and for that reason, i'm out.
wesbrown18:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on April 29, 2013, 09:50:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on April 29, 2013, 06:00:02 pm ---Seems to be another Raspi clone that is missing the point of what the Raspi is to the education community.
$109 vs $35
I know the Raspi doesn't have all the bells and whistles that this UDOO board has, but in reality do you really need a SATA port or a quad core processor for basic programming and IO projects?
Short answer is no.
But without innovation and funding the Raspi would not exist today.
--- End quote ---
i have the same thoughts. it appears you are just buying a (and forgive the use of the word...) "retarded" computer. for $10 each I just bought 6 IBM lenovo desktops computers (3ghz P4's with 512mb ram and no harddrives) from the gummit auction here in town.
compare that with the 1.2ghz ARM processor this thing uses. yes i know i'm comparing apples and oranges...but still. they are trying to make it "desktop like"
seems like all these guys want to do is one-up the raspberry pi even if the result is something nobody wants.
sd card for storage? pfffft SATA that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
a single ARM processor...humph....QUADCORE!!
gotta plug an Arduino on there??? Whaaaaaaaaat losers? build that crap in!
so now we basically have the equivelent of the atom computer. A computer which no one wants and falls sort on some of the most basic computing tasks.
and for that reason, i'm out.
--- End quote ---
I agree to an extent -- for many tasks, a PC does better. But, you know, there's something nice about these ARM boards. And it's called power efficiency. All that power you suck up? Has to go somewhere.
So that el-cheapo P4 you have? Good luck keeping it cool in an enclosed arcade cabinet without a fan. Let alone a bartop build, or the mini arcade projects that people like to build. And sometimes, you don't need a quad core.
There are better priced projects than that UDDO board, such as the Beagle Bone which costs only about $5-10 more than the Raspberry Pi, and has Arduino-like capabilities.