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Meet MinnowBoard MAX

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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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  • 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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    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

  • 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