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Raspberry Pi vs. The World: compare and contrast the competition

Catwell
Catwell
26 Jul 2013

Round One - Fight!

 

Mockery is the greatest form of flattery. Raspberry Pi hit the world by storm. Immediately, the industry responded. Since Raspberry Pi was introduced, many usurpers have tried to dethrone the board with little luck. Like Kleenex or Xerox, Raspberry Pi is the defacto description of small form factor computers. Every new board mentions Raspberry Pi somewhere in its literature; a mantra being “we are better than.” However, are any of the alternatives better? Let’s take a look.

 

This chart is put together under some criteria. The board must have some sort of video out built in or designed for it. The board must have come into existence since the release of the Raspberry Pi. In addition, I picked boards that either suggest directly, or third party referencing, it as a replacement for a Raspberry Pi.

 

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Raspberry Pi vs The World: a comparison between the top contenders. (See attached files for large resolution images of the list... all images via their respective companies)

 

The BeagleBone Black, UDOO, and Parallella seem like strong contenders in ousting the Raspberry Pi from its global domination. But, all these boards lack one critical success factor, a huge and fervent community. Raspberry Pi prevalence is so large, that numerous companies have sprung up just developing accessories for the board. And they are all paying salaries because of it. Just see this list of Raspberry Pi Accessories that put the little board back on top of the stack.

 

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  • fustini
    fustini over 10 years ago +1
    It might not be as large in sheer numbers, but the 100% Open Source Hardware BeagleBoard & BeagleBone has a strong community ( http://beagleboard.org/ ) that has been around for 5 years as of this past…
  • fustini
    fustini over 10 years ago +1
    I like the chart but it would be helpful to update it as to which ones are Open Source Hardware
  • morgaine
    morgaine over 10 years ago in reply to fustini +1
    Very interesting, I hadn't realized that Beagleboard.org has been around that long. And even more interesting, from the link you gave: From: http://beagleboard.org/blog/2013-07-29-Five-years-of-DIY-hacks…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to morgaine

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

                           

     

    It may be unfortunate that it can be pushed to support it.  Cue the complaints from people who want to run a media centre on the board ...

     

                       

    Not so much a case of being pushed. The hardware is capable of certain things and not others, same for any board.  That it falls slightly short of media center capabilities is unfortunate, so far though I've not seen any complaints as such, people buying BBB seem so far to be a bit more clued up.

     

    That said, when I had mine hooked up to a 1080p display briefly, I was pleasantly surprised at the general responsiveness of the desktop environment and apps. No doubt that's partly due to a newer generation Arm with a faster base clock and partly due to angstroms ruthless optimisation.

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    coder27 wrote:

                           

     

     

     

    well, certain things like youtube in a browser window at 480p or 720p may work better

    on BBB than RPi.  But I think it's still a work in progress.

     

                       

    Jason's reply here was interesting http://www.element14.com/community/message/84548#84548/l/re-have-a-question-about-the-next-gen-beaglebone-ask-it-here

    and the discussion here gives some more details https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/4vge3Zs8dYE

    Definately still a work in progress, but how far it can be taken is currently unknown.

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    'tis but a flesh wound ... I'm the knight of Pi and thalt not  pass

     

    bugger it.... the chip surface temp is only like 55 even with out the heat sink bbut it does crash quicker

     

     

    Please Mista can I have a RPI that just kinda sucks less ...grrr

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Network stops working USB fails and video is poor.

    it seems to crash a lot with XBMC ...

    just a flesh wound.

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    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to morgaine

    Personally if I was going for a Media player I'd have the ODROID U2 every time it kicks both their butts

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