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kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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)

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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

emgi

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Registered: 2012-12-17

Posts: 127

Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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."

emgi

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Registered: 2012-12-17

Posts: 127

Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

Yeah, you're right. I didn't read all of it. ;-)

In that case it is surely interesting!

/emgi

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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

joximus

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Registered: 2013-02-01

Posts: 12

Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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

piovrauze

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Registered: 2012-04-03

Posts: 14

Re: Energy-Efficiant-Arm Mainboards

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