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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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  • 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 Minnow.  It also has SATA: one dedicated connector and a second off the high-speed connector, which also provides PCIe.  [Update #2: You also get SATA and PCIe with original Minnow, but not with RasPi or Beagle.]  MBMax can have dual core for US$129.  The MB Max cores are 64-bit, if that's of importance.

     

    Update #1: They've also cut way back on the number of passives that they had on the original.  IMO the original board must have had inner layers that looked like Swiss Cheese, or else so many blind vias that the PC board itself was a major product cost.

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    John Beetem wrote:

     

    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 Minnow.  It also has SATA: one dedicated connector and a second off the high-speed connector, which also provides PCIe.

    Actually I don't think that's a good write up at all. I have an original MinnowBoard. It has SATA, it has PCIe, it has uSD, it doesn't have NAND, it doesn't have micro-hdmi (does have normal hdmi though).

    Really, you'd have to think linuxgizmos have never even seen the original Minnow...

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    selsinork wrote:

     

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    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 Minnow.  It also has SATA: one dedicated connector and a second off the high-speed connector, which also provides PCIe.

    Actually I don't think that's a good write up at all. I have an original MinnowBoard. It has SATA, it has PCIe, it has uSD, it doesn't have NAND, it doesn't have micro-hdmi (does have normal hdmi though).

    Really, you'd have to think linuxgizmos have never even seen the original Minnow...

    My comment was misleading.  I didn't mean that LinuxGizmos' article said MB Max said SATA and PCIe were new.   I was in fact thinking about whether MB Max would be useful to me.  The fact that it has SATA puts it ahead of RasPi and Beagle as a PC replacement, and the fact that it has PCIe hooked up puts it ahead of RIoTboard.  I should have make this clear.  Sorry for the confusion.

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    John Beetem wrote:

    My comment was misleading.  I didn't mean that LinuxGizmos' article said MB Max said SATA and PCIe were new.  

    Thing is, when you read the article that's more or less what they do say, along with the various other details they get wrong.

     

    The fact that it has SATA puts it ahead of RasPi and Beagle as a PC replacement, and the fact that it has PCIe hooked up puts it ahead of RIoTboard.

    For something with SATA, my choice is one of the Olimex A10/A20 boards. The LIME at 30euros is difficult to fault on anything apart from availability.

    The RIoT on the other hand has neither SATA or PCIe and I think can only be a BBB competitor when the BBB increases it's price.

     

    MinnowMax works out a bit more than RIoT while having both of the missing pieces, so there's certainly a place for it.

     

    Someone will no doubt be along shortly to ask if it runs windows too image