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Intel Edison Announced - Will there be a bunch of Pico Arcades soon?

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DarakuTenshi:

--- Quote from: michelevit on January 07, 2014, 07:25:50 pm ---As a frugal builder, i'm probably going to just keep purchasing used pcs on Craigslist and just use those for mame cabs.
100 bucks gets me a complete desktop computer with monitor and speakers.

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I've not been so lucky in my area.

MastarArcade:

--- Quote from: nordemoniac on January 07, 2014, 02:17:11 pm ---Intel just announced their "Intel Edison", a 1998 computer packed in a plastic casing the size of a SD card.

Thoughts?

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Things just keep getting smaller and smaller.  ;D

Single Core, Single Thread, and runs @ 400MHz, I'd assume from a CPU performance perspective that it'd be roughly equivalent to a Pentium II back in 1998 (as someone previously highlighted).

For now, if I'm looking for small, I'll stick with an Intel NUC or related MiniPC (e.g. GigaByte BRIX) to stay simple, small, cheap,  and maintain performance.

ark_ader:
It is a dual core processor, running two versions of linux.

 ???

Yep two different versions to enable the second core.  Saw the device in person today and took a pic and it is pretty impressive.  512mb but I will think it will come out of the gate at 1gb.  The engineer I was talking to suggested a high clock rate when shipping too.  Exactly the same size and thickness of a SDcard.  Price to be about $60 to OEMs.  You can run several in SDcard hubs and you can connect the pins on the reverse for custom applications.

I asked if this would run XP Embedded, and initially I was told no, but it was more wait and see.

paigeoliver:
Forget Linux, will it run Windows 98.

Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 08, 2014, 01:15:16 pm ---On the flip side. Running USB is still going to add bulk. Why use something the size of a quarter when you need to add enough hardware the size of a (rhetorical) brick to get your functionality? Go straight for the brick, get a Galileo, Raspi or Beaglebone. :dunno

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Agreed. I feel the same way about the Android TV boxes you can buy these days that are about the same size as a USB memory stick. Whilst I admire the technology, I can't see any real benefit to making them that small. To use one you need a PSU, remote control and/or keyboard/mouse, several cables, and possibly a separate USB hub with its own power supply. By the time you take all of those (mostly obligatory) extras into account, the device is no longer portable in any real sense. So you may as well spend just a tiny bit more, and have the SOC housed in a slightly bigger box with a full complement of ports.

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