Has anyone elsed noticed that these sorts of publications seem to be linking to things randomly? I read this article, and there's no link to the company's website, no link to where I can get more details about it, no link to where I can buy it.
The only link in the article is titled "Korean hardware manufacturer called Hardkernel is launching", which you'd expect to be linking to something relevant, and that link goes to a PC World article about the Nexus 7 being hard to find. What the fuck?
I noticed that there are a few offenders like this, who seem to just be linking to other articles of theirs randomly in an attempt to bolster relevancy. They just make me not click any links at all.
It's one of the cheap tricks AOL and Engadget pioneered and now everyone else emulates because it's so successful. They also love giant images at the start of articles to ensure you'll view the ads below the fold.
Its hard to decide whether to get this or a Raspberry Pi, talking to someone who has a Raspberry Pi, they have found that running even a graphical interface like lxde is slow and involves a lot of hacking.
Although I fully expected this, I wonder whether I've outgrown that sort of fooling around, and would rather play with something a little bigger like this, which packs a (slightly) bigger punch.
Not sure what I want from either device, other than something that could be another thing to play with.
Just depends on what you'll use it for. My rpi has proven a more-than-capable mail server, and anything with more oomph would just cost more (and suck more power)
It depends on what you want. If you want linux μC programming then RPi has a bunch of GPIO pins which I'm sure will be easily addressable under Linux. I'm not able to see anything like that on this one. But holy mother of god, this has 6 USB ports...
That's kind of the point though. Why waste the money? If it's just to tinker, fine. But I use my Raspberry Pi as a streaming endpoint and it works well. I have to cope with transcoding my 1080p content down though. That's the only reason I'd see shelling out for one of these.
This is based on the assumption that most people on HN aren't going to seriously use one of these cheap ARM devices as anything more than a toy. Even if you wanted a thin client of sorts, the RPi is more than capable.
I wonder if it's a sign of my impending decrepitude, but I can't think of a use for this that would tickle my hacker nerve. I applaud the existence even as I look at it and say "pass".
just search play for ubuntu installer, its a way to chroot and boot an xserver and then you vnc into it... kind of hack, sure, but there are also xservers and busybox, depends on your needs if these options will work for you. i haven't heard much about people using an arm build of ubuntu on droid devices, though, although it seems i remember something about it being worked on
For what this is being marketed for and for everyone of the top 6 uses I can think of... this has as good of specs or better.
I mean, what do you want NFC in an embedded form like this that would have similar uses in a tablet? For something being sold by Asus vs [some seemingly random person] and for $70 less, I think this has a lot more value that you give it credit for.
The only link in the article is titled "Korean hardware manufacturer called Hardkernel is launching", which you'd expect to be linking to something relevant, and that link goes to a PC World article about the Nexus 7 being hard to find. What the fuck?
I noticed that there are a few offenders like this, who seem to just be linking to other articles of theirs randomly in an attempt to bolster relevancy. They just make me not click any links at all.