[Swansea Hackspace] Hackspace Digest, Vol 13, Issue 3

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:06:49 +0000
Tim Moore <timmoore47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Off Topic:-
> 
> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/analogue-development-kits/7919611/
> 
> is Intels version of a Raspberry
> 
> Its in stock at £50.00 but not competitively priced.
> 
> Has it got any good points that make it worth investigating ?

It's not really the same thing - it an x86 platform (and once you put the
bios compatibility firmware module on it very much a PC on a chip). Very
different I/O and CPU behaviour as well in terms of things like FPU
performance or graphics (eg Pi has graphics)

Alan