News - Exynos competitor to the RaspberryPi and Beagle Bone

[HEXUS]

ODROID-U emerges at $69 to bring modern mobile computing to the masses.

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[edgars70]

They come with a 4 week warranty!

[bdaniel7]

Is there a version with 2 x Ethernet?

[Ferrum Master]

I've got a boner... Dear Santa...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

There is some more information about the ODROID in this thread I started a while back:

http://forums.hexus.net/pc-hardware/...-platform.html

[wasabi]

Is there a version with 2 x Ethernet?

Yeah - I'd love one of these cheap low power boards as a linux firewall too
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[chrestomanci]

While this is interesting because it has plenty of RAM and a good CPU, I am having trouble getting excited about this, manly due to the lack of fast I/O

There is no connection for a SATA hard disc, USB is USB-2 only, so not that fast, and large eMMC or MicroSD cards are too expensive (and not that large). Also the Ethernet does not support gigabit speeds.

I can see this could be useful as a media player, but for that sort of thing a Raspberry Pi is just as good, cheaper, and likely to have much better community support.

If it had SATA, and gigabit Ethernet, then I would probably buy one as a low power server, but without I can't see a use for it.

Another potentially interesting ARM dev board is the Samsung Arndale 5. It has a 1.7GHz Dual core CPU, 2Gb of RAM and is absolutely packed with features, and looks like a development platform for a mobile phone. Unfortunately that is reflected in the price - $250!