Look what arrived on my desk this morning.
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7591857/Public/Lonestar.jpg)
What you got planned for it?
Not quite sure yet.
First plan is to replace my Celeron/Ion Mediacentre with this. It's running Raspbmc, but the boot times are a little slow. Ordered a class 10 SD card to see if I can make it faster.
I've got a plan to replace my Core2Quad in the loft with a few of these running Sab, Sickbeard and Couchpotato.
Quote from: soopahfly on September 06, 2012, 21:38:43 PM
Not quite sure yet.
First plan is to replace my Celeron/Ion Mediacentre with this. It's running Raspbmc, but the boot times are a little slow. Ordered a class 10 SD card to see if I can make it faster.
I've got a plan to replace my Core2Quad in the loft with a few of these running Sab, Sickbeard and Couchpotato.
I found Raspbmc a bit slow to be a full time replacement for my HP microserver. Its sat doing nothing now ... need a new plan I think.
That's a little bit what I'm finding. However, the cost saving of electricity running this, I might be able to live with it.
Apparently a faster SD card speeds the whole thing up a treat.
I do find it amazing that something that can barely run XBMC's interface can play my 720p stuff without breaking a sweat!
I found the same with mine, and to be honest my TV supports DLNA to stream direct from the microserver, I think I'll wait to see what else comes out distribution wise, I'm surprised there aren't really any appliance type releases other than RaspBMC.
I also tried the main linux distribution and browsing the net was a little painful, I'll give the Android release a go when its out (if it's not out already) and see what that's like.
I really only bought it to play with and will have a go when they bring out some newer distributions, I just don't have the time at the moment to dick around with linux distros to get them running how I want them.
I'm currently running Xbian, which seems a lot better than Raspbmc.
Tbh, I'm hoping to load some sort of multiple emulator setup, such as retroarch or run it inside some sort of cocktail table in the future.
Stuff where a full blown PC is just overkill.
production is being moved to the old Sony plant in Wales. Should become more readily available now.
Cool I'm still waiting on mine so hopefully it'll be the rev 2 board, no major changes really but the mounting holes should be handy!
You guys seen the Intel one they bringing out? Little more cost but seems a bit more grunty!
Kinda defeats the point though.
Quote from: soopahfly on September 09, 2012, 14:13:17 PM
Kinda defeats the point though.
Still same concept, cheap but not as cheap but has more grunt to ensure things like using as a media server bit more viable at 1080 etc?
But it's not a British product designed to promote the uk bedroom programmer.
Also, the pi has no problem playing 1080p, and can be run off 4 AA batteries.
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I can see the merits of both though, the Pi is just a little under powered for a HTPC, it's slow when using one of the XBMC variants (or the last one I tried on it) and if Intel price it right then I can see a decent market for it.
The Pi is very good for it's intended market, but some of the things people are using it for are pushing the limits.
It's a shame the intel one also requires a fan, an atom variant would be ideal really :)
Quote from: XEntity on September 10, 2012, 19:40:47 PM
I can see the merits of both though, the Pi is just a little under powered for a HTPC, it's slow when using one of the XBMC variants (or the last one I tried on it) and if Intel price it right then I can see a decent market for it.
The Pi is very good for it's intended market, but some of the things people are using it for are pushing the limits.
It's a shame the intel one also requires a fan, an atom variant would be ideal really :)
it has no 2d acceleration. Last I heard the community was working on harnessing the soc 3d capabilities to power the 2d but it's a long way off.
Quote from: XEntity on September 10, 2012, 19:40:47 PM
I can see the merits of both though, the Pi is just a little under powered for a HTPC, it's slow when using one of the XBMC variants (or the last one I tried on it) and if Intel price it right then I can see a decent market for it.
The Pi is very good for it's intended market, but some of the things people are using it for are pushing the limits.
It's a shame the intel one also requires a fan, an atom variant would be ideal really :)
Class 10 SD card sorts out the sluggishness, as does pumping the clock up to 800mhz.
Quote from: soopahfly on September 10, 2012, 20:07:01 PM
Quote from: XEntity on September 10, 2012, 19:40:47 PM
I can see the merits of both though, the Pi is just a little under powered for a HTPC, it's slow when using one of the XBMC variants (or the last one I tried on it) and if Intel price it right then I can see a decent market for it.
The Pi is very good for it's intended market, but some of the things people are using it for are pushing the limits.
It's a shame the intel one also requires a fan, an atom variant would be ideal really :)
Class 10 SD card sorts out the sluggishness, as does pumping the clock up to 800mhz.
Might give the clock a go, I was using a class 10 :)
I've got my clock @ 800 and the SDram @500
It already makes a massive difference.
When I get heatsinks, I'm going for the ghz.
Quote from: soopahfly on September 11, 2012, 07:35:29 AM
When I get heatsinks, I'm going for the ghz.
I do believe the last time someone posted that phrase on this board was 2001
Quote from: Mongoose on September 13, 2012, 08:35:25 AM
Quote from: soopahfly on September 11, 2012, 07:35:29 AM
When I get heatsinks, I'm going for the ghz.
I do believe the last time someone posted that phrase on this board was 2001
:lol: ;D
s'like being back in't deh!
So whos the first person who's going to try and fry an egg using a Pi? :P
Quote from: Leon on September 13, 2012, 09:31:01 AM
So whos the first person who's going to try and fry an egg using a Pi? :P
Good call, that, I'll add a title,
Raspberry Fri
Quote from: matt5cott on September 13, 2012, 23:14:13 PM
Quote from: Leon on September 13, 2012, 09:31:01 AM
So whos the first person who's going to try and fry an egg using a Pi? :P
Good call, that, I'll add a title, Raspberry Fri
:D :thumbup:
BTW, Firefox OS rocks!
Pi Super Computer! (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/supercomputer-built-from-raspberry-pi-and-lego/)
http://rawkes.com/articles/there-is-something-magical-about-firefox-os
Quote from: Leon on September 17, 2012, 10:55:35 AM
Pi Super Computer! (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/supercomputer-built-from-raspberry-pi-and-lego/)
the blab says they used 24 Pi's..... but I counted 32 in the photos :o
Maybe expanded it after article / before photo :)
Never mind that... Lego rackmounts! 8)
I knew that someone would do a Beowulf cluster of Pi's as soon as the project got off the ground. :)
24, 32, 64, it doesn't matter, build it the right way and you can just keep adding.
Turbo Mode! (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/20/raspberry-pi-turbo-mode-overclock-overvolt/)
+50% Speed boost without voiding warranty.
Time to bring back that turbo button off the old x486 machines ;)
sounds nice....
runs faster till it hits 85'C and then throttles back again.... even a cheap crap heatsink should handle that no problem :-)
Excellent. Have next week off so I'll get this on there and the latest build of raspbmc and see if its more tolerable. Fingers crossed!