Not an impressive video. Boot times are a crude comparison anyway, and when you boot the one to the Ubuntu desktop and the other to the Raspbian desktop you're not even comparing like for like. I've got both boards and use them in headless mode. The C1 does not just benchmark faster, it is clearly faster in real use - noticeably, but not overwhelmingly, so. It is easy to see why.
John summarises it well above. What I might add to his list is:
Faster memory interface, giving much higher memory bandwidth on the C1.
Better I/O architecture. The Amlogic SoC on the C1 exposes two USB buses and another bus for gigabit Ethernet. The RPi's Broadcom SoC gives you just the one USB bus which the RPi uses to drive all 4 USB ports and the 100Mb Ethernet interface. For any I/O heavy application the RPi2 will bottleneck much sooner.
Despite this, there are very good reasons why you might want to go for the RPi2 anyway.
Like all boards (including the original RPi), the C1 has some small-but-annoying teething problems that will have to be ironed out over the next few months. The RPi2 dodges that process because it's mostly identical to the RPi1 and benefits from the platform's maturity.
The RPi community is much larger. While HardKernel does a pretty good job supporting their boards, they can't possibly match the RPi(2) juggernaut - with the one notable exception of Android.
A few years down the line, when the C1 has been abandoned for 64-bit ARM boards, you'll probably still be able to buy a RPi2 and get updates for it.
The C1 has the better hardware. But the RPi2 is still pretty good, more mature, and has a larger community. Both boards are great in their own way. Take your pick.
Not an impressive video. Boot times are a crude comparison anyway, and when you boot the one to the Ubuntu desktop and the other to the Raspbian desktop you're not even comparing like for like. I've got both boards and use them in headless mode. The C1 does not just benchmark faster, it is clearly faster in real use - noticeably, but not overwhelmingly, so. It is easy to see why.
John summarises it well above. What I might add to his list is:
Faster memory interface, giving much higher memory bandwidth on the C1.
Better I/O architecture. The Amlogic SoC on the C1 exposes two USB buses and another bus for gigabit Ethernet. The RPi's Broadcom SoC gives you just the one USB bus which the RPi uses to drive all 4 USB ports and the 100Mb Ethernet interface. For any I/O heavy application the RPi2 will bottleneck much sooner.
Despite this, there are very good reasons why you might want to go for the RPi2 anyway.
Like all boards (including the original RPi), the C1 has some small-but-annoying teething problems that will have to be ironed out over the next few months. The RPi2 dodges that process because it's mostly identical to the RPi1 and benefits from the platform's maturity.
The RPi community is much larger. While HardKernel does a pretty good job supporting their boards, they can't possibly match the RPi(2) juggernaut - with the one notable exception of Android.
A few years down the line, when the C1 has been abandoned for 64-bit ARM boards, you'll probably still be able to buy a RPi2 and get updates for it.
The C1 has the better hardware. But the RPi2 is still pretty good, more mature, and has a larger community. Both boards are great in their own way. Take your pick.
