21 Oct
2014
21 Oct
'14
1:39 p.m.
On 10/21/2014 12:46 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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Bummer, I wouldn't trust on a device that has fans for on stage use.
Not entirely true, most of the software is readily available in the
repositories. If you need unpackaged software or newer versions of
software you need to recompile, yes. I've got a toolchain set-up for
this (an ARM chroot with everything installed needed for Debian
packaging) and it would also be possible to do this on the device
itself. But indeed, on a x86 machine it's not as trivial as building
stuff for x86 itself.
IIUC, they also don't support the same amount of memory.
No idea ;) Never checked that actually since most devices I know don't
come with memory slots or memory chips that can be piggybacked.
Nice devices but are they fanless?
No, but they are very quiet.
They also seem
to be fairly big, I
guess a Cubieboard is 4x as small as a NUC board. But I haven't really
compared the measurements yet so I could be wrong.
This particular model has a slightly larger case. The other models are not
as tall. The physical size is approx 10x10x4cm so they are very portable
and the solid aluminium casing is very robust.
Cubieboards are also very good units but they have some drawbacks too.
They are not as powerful as a Celeron and they require cross compiling
everything. As a stand alone device the NUC's can do very well
as a relatively low
cost processing unit. For the same form factor you can also get an i5
chipset. I'm not sure if they have released the i7's yet but they are
probably just around the corner. The top end i5's are very close to the
same speed as an i7.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to check them out, such a device would be
awesome as a multimedia player. So thanks for the info!
Jeremy