Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by cmn32480 on Friday December 11 2015, @04:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the runs-new-linux-distro:-fiord dept.

Tom's Hardware is highlighting a Kickstarter project for the Pine A64, a 64-bit computer board competing on specs with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B:

Essentially, the Pine A64 can be viewed as a more powerful next-generation Raspberry Pi device. The Pine A64 contains a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU clocked at 1.2 GHz. Compared to the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B that was released earlier this year and uses four Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 900 MHz, not only does the Pine A64 have a higher clock speed, but it also has a more advanced architecture, which consumes less power and achieves greater performance.

For graphics processing, the Pine A64 uses the dated Mali-400 MP2 GPU. Although we cannot compare the performance of the GPU inside of the Pine A64 to the VideoCore IV inside of the Raspberry Pi without testing both devices, Pine64 stated that the Pine A64 will be capable of 4K video playback, whereas the Raspberry Pi is limited to a resolution of 1920x1200. This gives the Pine64 an edge and should help to attract users planning to use it as a small HTPC system.

The two main options, Pine A64 and Pine A64+, cost $15 and $19 respectively. The A64+ comes with double the RAM (1 GB DDR3 vs 512 MB DDR3) and three additional ports for camera, touch panel, and LCD accessories. Other price tiers come with 2 GB of RAM, and 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Gravis on Friday December 11 2015, @10:33AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Friday December 11 2015, @10:33AM (#274914)

    Wouldn't buy, because there is no mention of free GPIOs and such.

    WRONG, [pine64.org] McFly! [pine64.org] Now make like a tree... and get out of here! ;)

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Informative=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   3  
  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday December 11 2015, @12:47PM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Friday December 11 2015, @12:47PM (#274942) Journal

    Thanks for the info. This was neither mentioned in the summary, nor in TFA, nor on the kickstarter page.

    --
    Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
    • (Score: 3, Informative) by rob_on_earth on Friday December 11 2015, @02:01PM

      by rob_on_earth (5485) on Friday December 11 2015, @02:01PM (#274965) Homepage

      its hidden deep in the Kickstarter QA section under "What type of hardware interfaces that Pine A64 have?"

      Depending on the model, all the Pine A64 has 46 dedicated GPIO pins, three UART, two i2c bus, two SPI bus, i2s audio, SPDIF out, IR receiver, Speaker out, 3v3, 5v, and ground. In the “PLUS” model, there are additional three ports: CSI-Camera, Touch Control, and DSI-LCD Panel.

      *emphasis mine