To start, it really depends on what you want to do, With that said, I would go with Raspberry Pi 2 because it only uses 5 watts while the Gizmo’s 10 watts. The Pi can handle video streaming very well hitting 30 fps at 1080p. Now with more memory things get even more flexible. Check out this blog What are you doing for Pi day? 3.14.15 (US) which shows different boards calculating Pi. Sorry no Gizmo and only one processor is tested, but you can get a feel for changing to newer ARM7 instead of older ARM6/
dtsartsanis I beg to differ. Linux software knowledge is not a prerequisite for Raspberry Pi. He could download and install Openelec. Start it and be in full screen without typing any Linux command. Openelec turns the Raspberry Pi into a media center playing movies on USB or off the internet.
Yes i agree, but if u want to use it as a pc u have to install software through the command line or install Synaptic.And is not always easy for windows users to use the command line.
For me Raspi is a great tool to learn and explore Linux and other great projects.
As others have mentioned, the big advantage of Raspberry Pi over gizmo2 is the low power consumption.
But still I would prefer a Gizmo2 for use as a PC because of the x86 architecture. Accessing internet would be one of the main use cases as a PC. Like it or not, many websites still have flash content. The support for flash on ARM architecture has been stopped for quite some time. Flash plugin taken from chromebook can be found online, but those could be big security risk. The only secure and supported flash plugin seems to be the pepper-flash plugin developed for chrome/chromium, and they are AFAIK available only for x86
Google Chrome cannot be installed on Raspberry Pi, because Google does not have support for Linux/ARM.
But Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome can be installed on a Raspberry Pi box, for both Arch Linux and Debian:
I got this quote from a good source najath. So you are kinda of right, unless you consider Chromium. I plan on trying soon and will let you know how flash works.
I tried Chromium on another ARM board - SABRE Lite which I had obtained thanks to element14. The ARM board is good enough for most use cases. But unfortunately pepper-flash was not available packaged for ARM devices. I used one that I got after an online search, and which was extracted from a chromebook. It worked reasonably well too. But for each update, I had to search the web for finding the latest version.
Later I got an Intel NUC with Atom processor. So now I'm experimenting with it and have set it up as my home cloud and entertainment platform.
If you find a simple and secure way of getting flash work on ARM devices, do let me know. I can then make some use of the SABRE Lite board
I'm not really worried about the low powered consumption. the thing that really interest me is the Linux and Window on the Gizmo. However I've so far liked the Rasberry Pi and have yet to try out the Gizmo.
