rk3399: like a Pi, but more RAM/CPU/I/O?

[Stephen Partington]

the reason Pi has not done the USB3 is because of those binary blobs you
mentioned.

for my use i will stick with the Pi. or move on to an intel compute stick.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> Saw this kickstarter link earlier:  https://www.kickstarter.com/pr
> ojects/1771382379/firefly-rk3399-six-core-64-bit-high-performance-pl/ .
> They say that they're putting together an ARM single-board machine with USB
> 3 ports, 1, 2, or 4G of RAM, dual-monitor capability, and the ability to
> run Android or Ubuntu.  "Like a Raspberry Pi but with more power" seems to
> be what they were going for.
>
> This sounds sort of interesting, even though it's a bit more expensive
> than a Pi.  The kickstarter's fully funded, and it looks like these people
> have already built and shipped a couple of other ARM boards.  Main problem
> I could see is that the hardware will probably be dependent on binary blobs
> and it'll be a PITA to run anything but whatever kernel they give you.  The
> Pi also has a large community that has hashed out many problems, while this
> system will probably involve new and exciting bugs.  Thoughts?
>
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