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    News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    It's an 'open source' PC board, like the Raspberry Pi, with a $199 price tag.
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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    For the extra price compared to the Pi I'd expect a lot more power, I'd rather buy a cheap PC at that price and it would be much more powerful. This is too big as well, Pi is small and can be attached to different things like a robot or on the back of your TV

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    It's Intel, was always gonna be overpriced.

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    So it's vastly more expensive than the Raspberry Pi and it has none of the ecosystem, and it's not even cute and tiny.

    The only thing it does have is that it is more powerful - barely so. It's less powerful than other boards like the $89 ODROID U2 (quad-core 1.7GHz Cortex A9, 2GB RAM).

    $199 is a ludicrous price, $79 would be more reasonable.

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Can't you get a fully fledged chromebook for that much?

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    lol, no. not for £130.

    The point here is that there is already a lot of investment in optimising for embedded x86 out there (read some of the AMD articles recently about AMDs complimentary x86 and ARM roadmaps, for example). While this board probably won't appeal that heavily to people who are just starting out with programming and want a cheap fun toy, it will almost certainly appeal to more serious hobbyists who are already conversant with embedded development for x86, and it's a damn site cheaper than most industrial/embedded x86 boards.

    One thing it might do, of course, is persuade AMD to look at releasing similar dev boards based on their embedded APUs, and that could only be a good thing

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    We use a Raspberry Pi where I work and it's a little gem. We use it alongside an Ethernet to IO device and for its cost and reliability, I can't see the new Intel board overcoming the Pi, especially at that price.
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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    I thought they were going to drop the Atom moniker? They should do it now and find an awesome name. Other names they should drop are Celeron and Pentium. Other than that, this is an awesome board in terms of power and lacks on graphic front. I'll pass and grab a R-Pi if I needed one!

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Quote Originally Posted by ConnorLowe View Post
    I can't see the new Intel board overcoming the Pi, especially at that price.
    It's not meant to overcome the Pi. Lazy reporting may make it seem like that, but it really is aimed at a different market segment. The Pi works really well for a lot of tasks, but if you've already invested in embedded x86 a dev board at $200 is actually pretty damn good. Plus there are certain things that Pi simply doesn't have: PCIe and SATA, for instance. You really do have to look past the superficial similarities....

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Quote Originally Posted by hero1 View Post
    I thought they were going to drop the Atom moniker? They should do it now and find an awesome name. Other names they should drop are Celeron and Pentium. Other than that, this is an awesome board in terms of power and lacks on graphic front. I'll pass and grab a R-Pi if I needed one!
    I see that the Atom E640T was first released in 2010. It's a 45nm part, so quite old. I was hoping it would be a later version of Intel architecture. Pity really.

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    tbh there's already a better & more powerful intel board available for about the same price sans ddr3 ram the Zotac D2550-ITX-B Wi-Fi Supreme 1.86GHz Atom Mini-ITX Board with onboard NVidia GT610 graphics and AC Adapter is about £130-140. Consumes less'n 30w max, it's dual core + HT, 64bit and runs off a std laptop powerpack so an incar laptop adapter works too.

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Comparing apples to apples, £140 isn't that much considering how expensive comparable x86 dev boards are!

    GPIO interfaces must be really expensive

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Quote Originally Posted by DDY View Post
    GPIO interfaces must be really expensive
    The processor alone is $37, according to ark...

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Quote Originally Posted by zaph0d View Post
    tbh there's already a better & more powerful intel board available for about the same price sans ddr3 ram the Zotac D2550-ITX-B Wi-Fi Supreme 1.86GHz Atom Mini-ITX Board with onboard NVidia GT610 graphics and AC Adapter is about £130-140. Consumes less'n 30w max, it's dual core + HT, 64bit and runs off a std laptop powerpack so an incar laptop adapter works too.
    That's not a dev board with GPIO interfaces.

    There's also a NUC kit at a similar price, but that's barebones, R-Pi is cheaper but it's ARM and the CPU on that is a lot weaker and it only has 512MB RAM. £130 seems like a lot but really is a good price in it's market segment, of course you can get more value for money elsewhere - when have niche special things ever been that cheap.

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    The automotive daughter board intrigues me as to it's functions. Is it just an obd port or is it a full blown canbus host

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    Re: News - Intel starts shipping the Atom powered MinnowBoard

    Bit late but R-Pi was aimed at a price, the specifications beyond that didn't really matter, they just wanted a $35 machine. Any article comparing a computer with an R-Pi should understand that, instead we get "Oh, this is a cheap computer, let's compare it with the R-Pi for page hits."

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