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Title: Raspberry who?
Post by: Jay on 17 May 2012, 20:34

F@ck yeah, a better all rounder than the PI (people have been complaining about the PI not playing HD movies properly or jerkily and taking a while to start)

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/new-74-android-mini-computer-is-slightly-larger-than-a-thumb-drive/

Sure it's twice the price, but it's more than twice the spec and probably worth it.

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: Dolly on 17 May 2012, 20:55

like the look of that  :cool:

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: Jay on 22 May 2012, 23:08

and another Pi contender

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/another-tiny-computer-vias-49-apc-offers-android-hdmi-video-out/

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: shepgti on 23 May 2012, 20:12

What's the point to all these little computers??

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: Dolly on 23 May 2012, 20:43

possibilities, get your self a monitor in the car, get one of these bad boys powered up, connect a keyboard into the drop down lid of your glovebox and away you go

just one thought swimming in my head at the mo

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: golf-sib on 23 May 2012, 23:45

Makes mini projects possible, such as:

You want a media PC to perform a basic function like stream movies from your pc but you can't justifyy to build a pc for that job and it would take up to much room, bam there's your answer

you have a small workshop, you just bought a cnc mill, but dont really want a big PC taking room, bam there's your answer

you want a pc in your car but mini pc's plus screen plus other stuff = expensive build, bam there's your answer

you are doing R&D, manufacturing or engineering at home or at work, rather than having pc's everywhere you have one of these for a specific task, or use this as a controller for the device in development etc...

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: DubFan on 24 May 2012, 09:15

Quote from: golf-sib on 23 May 2012, 23:45

You want a media PC to perform a basic function like stream movies from your pc but you can't justifyy to build a pc for that job and it would take up to much room, bam there's your answer

This ^ is what I'm thinking, particularly for the APC one, which could just sit in a tiny box behind the TV and has all the connections for wiring up.

The Pi and the AllWinner (here (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/new-74-android-mini-computer-is-slightly-larger-than-a-thumb-drive/)) would be more useful for travelling, having a portable computer that you could just plug into any TV and pickup WiFi anywhere, very handy.

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: Bandit127 on 27 May 2012, 08:24

Hmmm. Internet radio in the car..?

Come to think if it my phone should be able to do that.... I will give that a try.

Title: Re: Raspberry who?
Post by: Jay on 27 May 2012, 17:36

di.fm  :wink: