06-24-2016, 06:56 AM
@MarkHaysHarris777 , hehe you seem to have misunderstood what i ment by "great worthless hardware" .. By that im talking about the lack of working drivers and such .. For example , let's say that you buy the new Nvidia Gforce GTX 1080 , which is an AWESOME graphics card for desktops, it would not be of any use if it had no drivers would it ? Same thing here, the hardware is good hardware, but without good drivers, it's still just useless hardware, cause you cant utilize it's power with suck ass or no drivers (u may notice if you are a Nvidia desktop user, that it prompts you with an update nearly every week or so)
And what you said about Rasp Pi and the "35$ computer" , i totally agree.. You need probably at least another 30-40$ worth of addons to make it usable (power adapter, memory card, case, cables etc) and when i first looked at the Pine64 store, i figured it was going to cost me about 110$ + international shipping (for a case, power adapter, memory card and the little screen they offer) so the price point is not a problem in any way .. Im not looking at this like "hey let's buy an Pine64 instead of Rasp 3 cause i could save 5$"
As u mentioned , Rasp Pi only has 1gig of ram, and when i first read about Pine64, there was talk about 4gb ram version, and that was kinda what drew me in, then i say they just had the 2gb version so i tough that at least that's 1gb more .. But i've seen few videos of Pi3 running Kodi, and does is pretty well.. I would like to have 4gb ram, but i already ordered Pi3 few hours ago.. But when i find something bigger and better (with working drivers and such) i will buy that one and try it..
As for being on the Rasp Pi board, unfortunatly no, then they would have gone all out on specs with the Pi 3 , at least made a "premium model" or something featuring some real power , cause not everybody are looking just at the price.. I would not mind paying 60-90$ for 64bit 4core cpu with good GPU and 4gb ram..
You mentioned that PI3 does not run android at all, i had not looked into that, but why would you wanna run android when you can get a real linux distro ? Also if I find that Pi3 does not run Kodi as smoothly as i want it too, I could always just turn it into a lamp or mean stack for dev purposes ..
And what you said about Rasp Pi and the "35$ computer" , i totally agree.. You need probably at least another 30-40$ worth of addons to make it usable (power adapter, memory card, case, cables etc) and when i first looked at the Pine64 store, i figured it was going to cost me about 110$ + international shipping (for a case, power adapter, memory card and the little screen they offer) so the price point is not a problem in any way .. Im not looking at this like "hey let's buy an Pine64 instead of Rasp 3 cause i could save 5$"
As u mentioned , Rasp Pi only has 1gig of ram, and when i first read about Pine64, there was talk about 4gb ram version, and that was kinda what drew me in, then i say they just had the 2gb version so i tough that at least that's 1gb more .. But i've seen few videos of Pi3 running Kodi, and does is pretty well.. I would like to have 4gb ram, but i already ordered Pi3 few hours ago.. But when i find something bigger and better (with working drivers and such) i will buy that one and try it..
As for being on the Rasp Pi board, unfortunatly no, then they would have gone all out on specs with the Pi 3 , at least made a "premium model" or something featuring some real power , cause not everybody are looking just at the price.. I would not mind paying 60-90$ for 64bit 4core cpu with good GPU and 4gb ram..
You mentioned that PI3 does not run android at all, i had not looked into that, but why would you wanna run android when you can get a real linux distro ? Also if I find that Pi3 does not run Kodi as smoothly as i want it too, I could always just turn it into a lamp or mean stack for dev purposes ..