Sadly the Rasberry Pi has nearly no powermanagement and draws nearly 0.5W even in idle. For comparison N900 draws 0.035W in idle. ...
Joshua Blomberg (@si_jblomberg) says: April 21, 2016 at 11:15 am Every time one of these ARM boards comes out, it only serves me as a reminder of why I stopped paying attention to the single board computer market. Yes, the assortment of RasPi’s are wunderkinder. Yes, people love their Odroids and Beaglebones and all those other boards built around oh-so-convenient ARM SoC’s. But, really, aside from the novelty of its size and how much proverbial punch you can get out of something that small, what’s the real advantage of using ANY ARM-powered Linux SBC? I suppose there’s an argument to be made that the fact that you can get near-desktop functionality out of something the size of a wallet justifies its own existence, or even that the justification is that people buy it. Both of those statements are true; I don’t begrudge the free market its ability to release whatever products people think they can sell, barring obvious concerns such as product and user safety. However, that doesn’t mean the market shouldn’t be criticized for bandwagoning and a lack of giving people what they really, truly want: A small, low-power, expandable computer. Personally, I’ll wait for Intel to pull their heads out of their asses and start releasing an Edison-like system that gives me all the wonders of a RasPi with a processor that actually allows me to run the sorts of programs I’d actually want to run on a tiny computer connected to m