Radxa Rock looks really awesome. I was thinking about another Pi for a minecraft server, but I just might have to go with the Radxa Rock instead. Can't beat 4 cores and 2GB Ram for 99 bucks.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Steven S. Critchfield <[email protected]>wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > ARM is great and I love working with it, however, I simply cannot wait > > to get my hands on an Edison! > > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html > > > > "The Intel Edison board features a low-power 22nm 400MHz Intel® Quark > > processor< > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/quark/intel-quark-technologies.html > > > > with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth*, and much more." > > I'm starting to question Intel and their accuracy. The first link you > provided says it is a dual core setup. But if you follow the link from the > quote, and click on specification, you find out it is single core. It also > a single thread chip. That starts making it not so interesting. I also > question the low power claim, I don't think they have qualify it to cover > what that means. The CPU page says it is 2.2 watts. Problem I have with > that is that you can't have much power in the wifi or bluetooth and still > stay under 2.2 watts. I wonder how sensitive the radios are with that > little power. Only thing I see going for it is size, but compute power for > power isn't yet on par with the ARM SoC parts. > > -- > Steven Critchfield [email protected] > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
