Asus launches Raspberry Pi 3 competitor

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Asus launches Raspberry Pi 3 competitor

Asus has launched a competitor to the Raspberry Pi 3 – the Asus Tinker Board – which is on sale for £55.

According to reports and published presentations, the Tinker Board is “almost 2-times faster” than the Raspberry Pi 3 in benchmark testing.
 
backstreetboy said:
At double the price so it's more a Odroid C2 competitor not a Rpi 3 one. /heads to report clickbait thread
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According to the comments I saw of you, everything on MYBB is clickbait. You probably heard a new buzzword and can't get enough of it. While you heading away, do us all a favour and just stay away.
 
cozinsky said:
According to the comments I saw of you, everything on MYBB is clickbait. You probably heard a new buzzword and can't get enough of it. While you heading away, do us all a favour and just stay away.
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So something that's twice the price being called a competitor is correct? LMAO. Different price segments. Of cause it will win if you don't factor in the price.
 
cozinsky said:
According to the comments I saw of you, everything on MYBB is clickbait. You probably heard a new buzzword and can't get enough of it. While you heading away, do us all a favour and just stay away.
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So this isn't clickbait? They're calling this a Raspberry Pi competitor. The Raspberry Pi is being made by a charity foundation, a non-profit organization, they're not competing with anyone, altough they are winning the price point here.
Maybe Asus should compete with the Intel Galileo2 or Intel Joule.
 
competitor??....at almost 50% more expensive?! Compare apples with apples.

I do like the colour coded GPIO pins though!
 
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gregmcc said:
competitor??....at almost 50% more expensive?! Compare apples with apples.

I do like the colour coded GPIO pins though!
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Eh... for a lot more power. It's a competitor in that you can swtich the two out - identical layouts. If you need the power, be prepared to pay more. I reckon it would be pretty useful to have the extra grunt for some applications. It's still a PC for under R1k.

backstreetboy said:
So something that's twice the price being called a competitor is correct? LMAO. Different price segments. Of *cause it will win if you don't factor in the price.
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*course
 
Interesting. Maybe I shouldn't dismiss it too soon. If they work with the Kodi devs to get the chipset supported then we might be onto something.
 
The biggest problem with all of the Rpi alternatives is community support, there just isnt as many people behind them as Raspberry Pi, meaning for projects you will most likely end up having to port the code over from the Pi yourself, for instance I wanted to get a 2 row 16 character display working on a OrangePi, if I had a Rpi I could simply grab the libraries and get the diagram from a tutorial and they will work fine, but because no one els have released a ported version for the Opi I had to do it myself.

The only difference is the Opi is significantly cheaper, so you can forgive it for having that sort of support, but paying considerably more (asus) and being stuck on doing something basic would be a waste.
 
backstreetboy said:
So something that's twice the price being called a competitor is correct? LMAO. Different price segments. Of cause it will win if you don't factor in the price.
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In the sub-$100 micro computing and micro electronics genre, they are indeed a competitor. Price is NOT the only grounds for competition. And for micro-electronics enthusiasts such as myself it IS a competitor. Arduino, RPi and this all compete for where we spend our money vs what we get for it.
 
GreGorGy said:
In the sub-$100 micro computing and micro electronics genre, they are indeed a competitor. Price is NOT the only grounds for competition. And for micro-electronics enthusiasts such as myself it IS a competitor. Arduino, RPi and this all compete for where we spend our money vs what we get for it.
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Exactly.

Problem with these comments is that you're apparently SUPPOSED to find fault with the article, whatever the topic. Seemingly 'cool'.

Safe to assume it'll fit the Pi enclosures?
 
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