[Arm-dev] ARM Development Hardware

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 04/17/2015 05:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 04/17/2015 09:51 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 04/17/2015 04:46 PM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>> I was hoping to get some suggestions from you guys about which ARM
>>> development hardware to purchase.
>>>
>>> The hardware will have just one purpose; compiling and testing CentOS.
>>> With this in mind I'm leaning towards something Quad Core, good amount
>>> of RAM,NAND Flash, SATA and that has a heatsink . Does SATA seem
>>> reasonable or will a USB HDD serve just as well?
>>>
>>> I live in Mumbai, India. So, I might not have all the options you guys
>>> have. I might be able to get Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard, Cubie Board,
>>> Radxa, Banana Pi or Odroid from these guys https://www.crazypi.com/ or
>>> http://www.greenindiaelectronics.com/
>> I am very happy with the Odroid U3s I have, they are much faster than 
>> BB and there is no comparison towards RPi. RPi are cheap but very 
>> very very slow. If you are interested just in raw horsepower, Odroid 
>> XU3 are a better option, but more expensive
>>
>>      Manuel
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>> PS: did I mention that RPi are very very very slow ?
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> Is this the new RPi 2 which is an armv7 duo core?  No sata though. 
I was speaking about the older Pis ( that's what I have around ) but 
even the newer RPi is still slow compared to the other boards due to the 
lower frequency they operate at.