Its the same price as a Chromebook, although it does have more ports, ethernet, serial and jtag useful, but pretty similar hardware spec I would guess.
I can't see any power consumption figures which is annoying.
I do believe that it's closest siblings are Chromebook and Nexus 10. Graphics benchmarks are slightly under the Nexus 10 but that could be due to a number of things. [1]
For me the main interest are the schematics and fudging a quad core when it arrives. As well as having all the peripherals available for development choices.
Combine this board with a 256GB SSD and WiFi, and you have a prototype for a puck sized PC. Add some apps, to allow you to use a laptop or a netbook as an input device, and there might be a compelling product developed on here.
Sigh, its a cool board, at $100 it would be game changing, at $250 its just another evaluation kit. The continued lack of docs on the ARM GPU is extremely annoying.
It is a lot harder to work with these phone and tablet type chips. ARM have open sourced the Mali driver code but you still need the DDK, which requires a license. The reverse engineering efforts on GPU command streams are also a labour of love from Lima etc.
And it would be twice as good if it cost half as much.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadMali GPU, so that is closed, but has a reverse engineered open source driver.
I can't see any power consumption figures which is annoying.
For me the main interest are the schematics and fudging a quad core when it arrives. As well as having all the peripherals available for development choices.
[1]http://www.glbenchmark.com/phonedetails.jsp?benchmark=glpro2...
I wish someone would solve this problem with an open source graphics core that is ARM bus compatible.
And it would be twice as good if it cost half as much.