Hardkernal reveals quad-core Exynos ODROID-U developer boards, starting at $69

[Chippiewill]

One area where Moore's law can be seen alive and well seems to be the developer and small project computer world. Whether it's the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi, Intel's NUC, or any number of similar products. There's one more name to add to this list, and that's the ODROID-U from Hardkernel. The boards are a little more expensive than Raspberry Pi's impressively cheap Model A and Model B, but you are getting some bang for that buck. The $69 ODROID-U comes with a 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos 4412 processor (as found in the Galaxy S III and Note II, 1GB of RAM, quad-core Mali 400 graphics, micro-HDMI, a brace of USB ports, a headphone jack and Ethernet. If you want a little more oomph, for an extra $20 you can have the RAM doubled, and a 1.7GHz core with the ODROID-U2 model. There's one stat you might notice missing which is flash memory. There's no onboard storage, so you'll have to bring your own memory for the built-in microSD slot. As the ODROID name suggests, the boards can run Android, as well as a variety of Linux flavours. Sound good? In a reverse of what you might expect, the ODROID-U2 will be available first, starting December 21st, with the cheaper board pencilled in to arrive on January 16th.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/02/h...roid-u-boards/

They look basically like more powerful raspberry Pis which is actually fairly interesting in my opinion, the Raspberry pi as it is is interesting but a bit of a lightweight. This can handle a heck of a lot more by the looks of things.

[scottish]

mm looks interesting, wonder what the demand will be like considering its price comparison to the pi, and the fact i'm fairly sure Raspberry Pi had about a year to build up the hype about it where as this is like 2 months?

[Chippiewill]

The Raspberry Pi wii'd it by having a ridiculously limited supply, I suspect that most people will pass this off due to the less memorable name among other things. Which is a shame really as I think this is genuinely a better product.

[scottish]

Yeah at the start it was bad, although i'm sure now they're on mass production and you can buy multiple instead of being limited to one (even though i'm still waiting on another one being delivered that i ordered in september from farnell)