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ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on January 12, 2014, 07:38:48 am ---
--- 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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Most of these Google TV dongles are rooted from day one.  So you get droidmote and remote control it via your android phone or tablet.  Most TV sets have a USB socket for service or pen drives.  This allows suitable power for these units.  With the ability to run Linux without any special effort, these devices can be truly portable as you can run them headless.  Actually I ran an experiment to see if I could use these dongles as rdp clients.  They worked flawlessly.  I can send them out to my remote offices and even the simplest nitwit can install them.  You would be surprised how many cheap monitors come with hdmi out of the box.

link for info

SavannahLion:
You use Droidmote? I was going to use it in my arcade cab as part of a diagnostic tool but the broken English made it a little difficult to understand if it really fit the bill or not.

MastarArcade:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 11, 2014, 02:02:06 am ---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.



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It looks like the 9 SD electrical signals were present. Any insight in to the function of those?

$60 dosen't sound half bad, but I'm a bit pessimistic whether a Quark chipset in the SD form factor would be valuable for a "PC" replacement. The lack of video is a bit of a problem to overcome.

Looking at the Galileo dev board (which my be interesting to play with) with that same Quark chipset, its got a miniPCIe slot where you could connect up a VGA controller, but the additional cost of that starts going to offset the function. An alternative USB VGA controller may be cheaper, but lack performance.


danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 11, 2014, 10:55:11 pm ---Forget Linux, will it run Windows 98.

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Word. Why a 1998 computer if it can't run it's namesake OS...

keilmillerjr:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 11, 2014, 10:55:11 pm ---Forget Linux, will it run Windows 98.

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Why in the hell would you want to run a 15 year old operating system?! I don't understand winblows people, where it's cool to keep running an older version of everything.  :dizzy:

Linux is free, usually uses s h i t for resources (quick), and you don't have to worry about tons of viruses like with winblows.

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