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
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.
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.
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/
