Thread: New Raspberry Pi 2 released, Quad core ARM Cortex A7, 1gb RAM
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2015-02-03 , 17:39
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Originally Posted by sulu View Post
No, the real question is:
If you think you have a use for the Pi 2, why haven't you bought some other arm board yet?
The Pi 2 specs look a lot like a Cubieboard 2 or a Cubietruck. Granted, these are more expensive, but the Pi 2 is also quite late on the market.
So unless you have serious funding problems the niche the Pi 2 could fill should already be filled.
The Pi has, however, some advantages over the Cubies and most other ARM boards:
  • MUCH better community support (I've got a Cubietruck, the hardware is much more complete/promising - but try to get a recent kernel for it...or drivers for the CedarX multimedia unit...)
  • Most parts of the hardware are well documented now (Broadcom has openened up quite a bit...)
  • Camera interface, infrared camera available (and RAW support)
  • Free Mathematica package (probably more useful now with the quadcore and 1Gb RAM)
  • Lots of extensions available

Especially because of it's community, it's still the most fun ARM board for meat the moment, despite its disadvantages:
  • no WiFi/Bluetooth on board
  • no SATA
  • no real-time-clock
  • no battery interface
  • GPU a bit dated

Originally Posted by sulu View Post
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BTW, I love that sentence:

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