[kwlug-disc] (question) What embedded board do you have?

[Chris Craig]

It looks to me that the ASRock Q1900M doesn't come with RAM, requires
a full ATX power supply and is missing the dozens of GPIO pins that
are the main draw (IMO) for hobby boards.

On 2 October 2014 22:24, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:14:45AM -0400, William Park wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:01:32AM -0400, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:47:48AM -0400, William Park wrote:
>> > >
>> > > What embedded board do you have/use?
>> > >
>> > > I'm aware of Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black (have this), and I'm
>> > > interested in other boards.  I guess, I can extract mainboard from old
>> > > laptops, but can't put that on a resume. :-)
>> >
>> > Somebody posted about the CubieBoard series a while ago. Of course, I
>> > am posting without owning one, but now I am lusting after a
>> > CubieTruck to replace my desktop computer.
>> >
>> > http://www.cubietruck.com/
>>
>> Ok, it has Gigabit and SATA, but price is out of wack.
>> How does it compare with one of
>> http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?cPath=26_706
>> ?
>> --
>
> It's smaller and cuter.
>
> It's got an ARM processor.
>
> It is (mostly?) open hardware. (There appear to be problems with VPU
> drivers.)
>
> Maybe those other boards are better in every other respect.
>
> I am a sheeple consumer, not a hacker or a maker. So I look at a board like
> the CubieTruck that has the I/O ports I want (VGA out, enough RAM,
> enough CPU power) and I start to drool. But I could be very incorrect
> in my analysis; I have not done much research into the area.
>
> - Paul
>
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