On 06/02/13 13:56, Tim Connors wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Toby Corkindale wrote:
If you're less serious, and don't want to spend the money to get a Beaglebone, and just want a miniature Linux device, have a look at the Cubieboard: https://www.miniand.com/products/Cubieboard%20Developer%20Board It's about the same price as a Raspberry Pi, only you get double the memory, triple the CPU performance, a SATA port, more I/O ports, and it has 4GB of nand on-chip.
Interesting, but.... 2amp @ volts (and $10 more). Hmmm, I'll stick with the pi thanks. It only needs to be able to flick a relay over every few hours and answer the occasional packet on port 80.
The Raspberry Pi requires a 1.5 amp supply and recommends a 2A. So not actually much difference there. Both the pi and the A10-based devices will rarely draw peak power.. if you're mostly idling, don't have wifi enabled, don't have sata in use, and don't have any USB devices sucking hundreds of milliamps, then you'll draw far less on average. But the supplies are rated at somewhat above the maximum draw.