APC 8750

mavalpha said:
FYI: HDMI port only does 720p, unlike Pi's 1080.
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I don't think this board is trying to be a raspberry pi.

The Pi has use as a controller, an educational/hobby tool, and an XBMC client. In terms of end usefulness for the home, the XBMC client is a one hit wonder thing becaues of the optimized chipset.

This board is basically a droid for a desktop. If it has access to the market, it will have a ton of apps the Pi will never see. Of course, none of them done as well as a PC but what droid does.
 
Its a shame really. If they had dropped a few ports and laid the rest out flatter, you could have done your own home built tablet. Assuming a touch screen could be had somewhere for a reasonable price.
 
Also FYI: ARM11 at crappy clock speeds. Pass. It's cheap, but that's because it's crap, like everything ARM11.

P.S. Should put "Via" in the topic too.. and also the price, which is not hot if it's above MSRP regardless of newness (not that anything ARM11 should be considered new). Thought this was gonna be some APC Power thingie.
 
dandragonrage said:
Also FYI: ARM11 at crappy clock speeds. Pass. It's cheap, but that's because it's crap, like everything ARM11.

P.S. Should put "Via" in the topic too.. and also the price, which is not hot if it's above MSRP regardless of newness (not that anything ARM11 should be considered new). Thought this was gonna be some APC Power thingie.
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Its a $60 computer. How powerful do you think its possibly going to be? Its designed to get a person on the Internet and to stream media. Considering its been unavailable except for a very small pre-order this being in stock anywhere makes it a hot deal. Its $10 over the MSRP and Newegg's discounted shipping over the pre-order shipping makes things even at the price Newegg is charging.

Even though Via makes it they don't market it as anything beyond the APC 8750. Perhaps spelling out Android PC 8750 would have prevented you from clicking it and wasting all of our time with your trolling.
 
Does anybody know if there's a POE version of one of these things (micro pc's) somewhere.
 
I cant imagine that you chould not strap some pretty small heat sinks on these and do some really big over clocking. Unlike almost all other ARM devices there is not a major space / weight constraint here.
 
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