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Banana Pi - Largely Raspberry Pi compatible, but with more grunt

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EightBySix:
Wonder if it will tip the balance in favour of it being appropriate for small builds...

http://www.bananapi.org/

DeLuSioNal29:
Hmm. It might. Read more here:  http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-hardware-duel/

sharpfork:
They have open sourced the hardware and sent it directly to china.  The price is going to drop a bit if there is much demand.  I think I'm going to pick one up to play with.

Haze:
"This is a surprise : in a single-threaded test, the Allwinner A20 chip is slower than the Broadcom BCM2835, even with theorically 1GHz, compared to the Raspberry’s 700MHz.."

Unless that measurement is erroneous then it's actually worse than the Pi for emulation... somehow (that takes some doing)

sharpfork:

--- Quote from: Haze on August 15, 2014, 06:08:27 am ---"This is a surprise : in a single-threaded test, the Allwinner A20 chip is slower than the Broadcom BCM2835, even with theorically 1GHz, compared to the Raspberry’s 700MHz.."

--- End quote ---

I guess I'll wait for someone else to test it  :lol

This article http://liliputing.com/2014/04/banana-pi-a-57-rasperry-pi-clone-with-a-faster-cpu-more-memory.html
Has direct links to shop for it on aliexpress with prices  under $50.
It also links to a Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 based humming board that is pretty cool too: http://www.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=HummingBoard_Hardware

At some point one of these cheap little boards is going to have enough power to run a decent level of emulation.  When they get there, someone will make a SD card image that has a linux or android OS and front end with an easy way to load emus and roms and output to HDMI or VGA (with converter).

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