02-29-2016, 07:49 AM
(02-29-2016, 07:35 AM)jl_678 Wrote: Hi,
I am a backer of the Pine 64 and am looking forward to the arrival of my unit board in March. It is always interesting to see what other companies are doing and I noticed that the Raspberry Pi Foundation release the Raspberry Pi 3, and it has some interesting specs. Here are some highlights:
I find these specs to be interesting and the cost is competitive to the Pine considering that it includes WiFi and Bluetooth. I am curious about other people's perspectives.
- 64 bit Quad Cortex A53 @ 1.2GHz
- 1 GB SDRAM
- 40mhz VideoCore IV
- Integrated WiFi and Bluetooth
- Price - $35
I have multiple RPi's and love the strength of Linux and community support. The SBC is an interesting alternative. Do you agree? Why or why not?
They both are great depending on their uses cases. As a general purpose computer I think the Pi 3 has an edge since it has much better GPU driver support and community; the integrated wifi would come in handy for that. Bluetooth would be good for makers However...
From a maker and server perspective, I think the Pine A64 is far and away better. The network isnt 10/100.. it is 10/100/1000 and not hanging off the USB bus like the Pi 3. This is important for me personally since I currently use a Pi 2 as a TVHeadend Server and 2 HD streams, 1 for PVR and 1 for playback induces stuttering(against the micro SD card) thats not to include other things I could add as services such as Samba for MP3s, which I also currently do now with a 128GB USB drive. To add to that, the 2GB of ram will also come in handy for these services as well.
Im glad the Pi 3 is is going to be ARMv8. That will kick start alot of software to be compiled for that target which will make it easy to bring to Pine.