Which would you get Rasberry PI 2 or Gizmo 2 and why?

libernullmal over 11 years ago

Just curious between the two and I wanted to know what the pros and cons between the two?

shabaz over 11 years ago in reply to fvan

Oh. I'd forgotten about that!
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
fvan over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

Even mSATA might require some soldering, if the device is "non-compliant"

http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/gizmo2/blog/2015/01/30/gizmo2-installing-ssd-and-ubuntu
Cancel
Vote Up +2 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
shabaz over 11 years ago in reply to clem57

Hi Greg,

Gizmo does have SATA capability with a bit of soldering, however since it has mSATA capability built-in, mSATA can be used for local storage
(i.e. no need to use SATA connector unless you really need it).
Cancel
Vote Up +1 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
clem57 over 11 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

For sata support try pcDuino 3.
Clem
Cancel
Vote Up +1 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
e14 Contributor over 11 years ago in reply to clem57

best question I have is can you interface it with a computer that is stata and uses ddr 2 ram?
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
clem57 over 11 years ago in reply to libernullmal

As I understand, the Gizmo supports Windows CE which is not a full Windows.
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
libernullmal over 11 years ago

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.
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
clem57 over 11 years ago in reply to najath

Ok! I will play for a few days and let you know.
Cancel
Vote Up +1 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
najath over 11 years ago in reply to clem57

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
Cancel
Vote Up +1 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel
clem57 over 11 years ago in reply to najath

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.
Clem
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel