02-29-2016, 08:34 AM
Pros for Pine:
- better ethernet, 1gb not on the USB bus
- more ram in some configurations (2gb)
- Android images readily available
- 64 bit linux readily available (lonsleep edition)
Pros for RPi
- better community support / compatibility with tons of older projects
- better software support ( again being in the market for quite a while)
- Windows 10 IOT
It is great to see more hardware in this space, sure it gets crowded. Pine is the first affordable 64bit arm devel board. How successful it be it depends on the community. RPi atm does not have 64 bit OS, but it is matter of hours / days. Not sure why the foundation didn't come up with 64bit os from the start.
Having more affordable aarch64 hardware means there will be more software build for that platform - win for everyone.
I got previous edition of the Pi with the csi camera and I don't see a reason to get a new version atm.
- better ethernet, 1gb not on the USB bus
- more ram in some configurations (2gb)
- Android images readily available
- 64 bit linux readily available (lonsleep edition)
Pros for RPi
- better community support / compatibility with tons of older projects
- better software support ( again being in the market for quite a while)
- Windows 10 IOT
It is great to see more hardware in this space, sure it gets crowded. Pine is the first affordable 64bit arm devel board. How successful it be it depends on the community. RPi atm does not have 64 bit OS, but it is matter of hours / days. Not sure why the foundation didn't come up with 64bit os from the start.
Having more affordable aarch64 hardware means there will be more software build for that platform - win for everyone.
I got previous edition of the Pi with the csi camera and I don't see a reason to get a new version atm.