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Runaway
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Nov 29, 2016
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Okay so an Odroid C2, Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A53(ARMv8) 1.5Ghz quad core CPU, Mali™-450 GPU, 2Gbyte DDR3, Gigabit Ethernet, 40pin GPIOs + 7pin I2S, USB 2.0 Host x 4, Infrared(IR) Receiver, costs around $40 with worldwide shipping from Korea. They offer a 7in screen as well, 800x480 pixels, 5 finger capacitive touch, for another $50. So total is $90 plus shipping and customs. Or you can go to a local distributor and get probably similar pricing for a machine that easily outperforms the Pi and works with most things the Pi works with.
I have owned both Pi and Odroids in the past and the Odroids have stuck around while the Pi was just not powerful enough for anything more advanced. If you only plan to use it as a microcontroller sure, but for anything more complex the Pi usually runs out of resources. Specifically if you are displaying things on an LCD you need more power to have a smooth experience. The Odroid comes with twice the RAM and almost twice the power if you overclock the processor.
Don't want to sound biased against the Pi, it sparked a great wave of new small boards coming to market for people like me, but at the same time when you are talking about 120$ you might as well get the most for your money.
Nov 29, 2016
SaltedSmokedIcecream
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Dec 2, 2016
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RunawayThank you! I was keeping an eye out for a Pi with LCD to try out a Pi Hole ad blocker, but the Odroid that you mentioned beats the pants off of the Pi for my purposes. Odroid has gigabit networking too, so no bottleneck filtering a household's worth of traffic....
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/4j05xw/pihole_on_ubuntu_1604_odroid_c2_instead_of/
Dec 2, 2016
sputnik13
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Jan 9, 2017
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RunawayI've used odroid u3, xu, and c2 for personal and commercial applications, and yes they are great power in a nice package for relatively chea, but their software support lifetime is abysmal. Of the units I have and used only the c2 has an up to date stack (and that's up to date only compared to other odroids) while my original raspberry pi b (not even b+) still gets updates and just works. There's more to selecting an embedded machine than just raw CPU performance.
Jan 9, 2017
Soko
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Jan 10, 2017
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RunawayI will now buy the odroid and continue to rail against mass drops rip off business model. Glta do your own dd. theyre going bankrupt.
Jan 10, 2017
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