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Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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• Started 11 years ago by kultex
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   kultex
   

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   As SliTaz 5.0 will support Arm, I just open this thread to collect hardware infos for Arm desktop Mainboards.

   Until now, there is Raspberry PI (now in revision 2), Via APC, OMAP4 PandaBoard ES and Kotron KTT30

   Now thats the first one, which is a real desktop alternative with a good price.

   ODROID-X - a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 1.4GHz SoC, a Mali-400 MP Core (Samsung Exynos 4412 SoC) with 1 GB of Ram with a affordable price - 129 $ + 30 $ shipping - powerconsumption max 10 W

   to buy: http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G133999328931&tab_idx=1

   here are the first specs: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=samsung_odroidx&num=1

   its a great alternative to Intels Atom and AMDs Brazos plattform, where you can be happy to run the computer with 10 W just standby (idle)

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   kultex
   

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   To new boards from ODROID

   ODROID-U 69 $

   http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341359084

   ODROID-U2 89 $

   http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341370451

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   kultex
   

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   Here I want to introduce a very interesting project - the Novena Project

   http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page

   Andrew "bunnie" Huang designed an Arm Mainboard for an Open Source Mainboard to build a laptop - the prototype is ready and if it will be a light 12" or 13" Laptop, I will buy my first new laptop since 15 years

   here some discussion about the open drivers (because the GPU will not be open Hardware)

   http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686

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   emgi
   

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   That's an interesting project! However, at first glance the board is missing one feature which I would consider essential on a laptop: A WLAN interface. Or did I miss it?

   /emgi

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   kultex
   

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   you have mPCIe Socket

   in the beginning of the discussion its also noticed:

   "Clarification: Wifi does not require a closed-source blob, if you use an Atheros 9k mPCI-x version. An example card is linked under the mPCIx feature bullet."

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   emgi
   

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   Yeah, you're right. I didn't read all of it. ;-)
   In that case it is surely interesting!

   /emgi

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   kultex
   

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   I do not want to make advertisement for Blackberry, but the Playbook WiFi 64 GB (Arm - so I put it here) is available now for 150 - 170 € - it will have update to blackberry 10

   I sold my android tablet and bought one - its the only tablet I am not waiting, that SliTaz is running on it - QNX is the only OS beside SliTaz which is really quick and secure..... - in my opinion

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   joximus
   

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   Looking forward for slitaz arm support for my new mk802 and mk808 devices.

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   piovrauze
   

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   There's also the cubieboard (http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard), which has nice HW and price range.

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