06-24-2016, 12:45 AM
(06-23-2016, 11:42 PM)dkryder Wrote: my biggest problem with the pine64 is allwinner. i just do not see much of a future with this company in the open source area, so i think if pine64 is to grow as a company they will have to go in another direction. as far as misleading advertising, yeah , i agree. but almost every company i am aware of does it. raspberry pi has a lot of support and development and they basically build good hardware. most of it is compatible between models. but, as a side point, somebody has to be a glutton for punishment to use this pine64 as a desktop, either that or they really never have much to do very quickly.
AllWinner do seem to be like a dinosaur living in the past. Having said that, they have just opened up the Mali driver, so the possibility of 3D hardware acceleration is now that much more achievable.
See:
http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Mali_Driver