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Meet MinnowBoard MAX

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Former Member over 11 years ago

Meet MinnowBoard MAX | minnowboard.org

 

Maybe they've realised the original MinnowBoard was too little, too late, too expensive..  $99 for the base Max looks mildly more interesting, but it needs to be a lot faster and much less power hungry if it's to get close to the current Arm boards.

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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 11 years ago +1
    There's a good write-up of MinnowBoard Max at LinuxGizmos: http://linuxgizmos.com/intel-unveils-tiny-x86-minnowboard-max-open-sbc/ It sounds like MB Max has much better software support than the original…
  • prpplague
    prpplague over 11 years ago +1
    The original MinnowBoard was nothing more than a learning exercise for both Intel and Circuitco. Intel needed to learn a few things about open hardware, and circuitco needed to learn about x86 hardware…
  • prpplague
    prpplague over 11 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +1
    john, yes indeed the plains on the original minnow were swiss cheese..... you can download the gerbers for a view if you'd like, hehe the Max indeed supports more standard distributions such as ubuntu…
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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 11 years ago

    Agree, looks a bit underpowered for the size; it would be nice if it was smaller. This is still quite larger than an Odroid.

    It will be fun to see what interesting applications arise from the Edison type platform, having full-blown Linux capability in such a tiny form-factor.

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    shabaz over 11 years ago

    Agree, looks a bit underpowered for the size; it would be nice if it was smaller. This is still quite larger than an Odroid.

    It will be fun to see what interesting applications arise from the Edison type platform, having full-blown Linux capability in such a tiny form-factor.

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    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

    shabaz wrote:

     

    Agree, looks a bit underpowered

    The original certainly was noticeably underpowered. This one should be better.  Whether it can match a Wandboard Quad which can be got for the $129 that the dual core version is set to cost is a more interesting question.  Being 64bit might help, some of the earlier Atom processors were a lot better in 64bit mode.

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    prpplague over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    selsinork,

     

    i can assure you it IS better than the original minnow. as reminder, Intel and circuitco have only been the x86 open hardware platform business for less that 18 months, and already we've brought the price down considerably. it took ARM SoC vendors over 10 years to get to the current price point for open hardware platforms based on ARM...


    Dave

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    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to prpplague

    David Anders wrote:

     

    Intel and circuitco have only been the x86 open hardware platform business for less that 18 months,

    You have a bit more experience at CircuitCo image

    Don't get me wrong, I think you're doing good things and I really do believe that Intel can do a lot in this area if they want to.

     

    So you've gone from $199 to $99 in not very long at all.. When do you think you'll get to $45 ? image

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