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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.

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