[time-nuts] Raspberry Pi Competition...

[Michael Tharp]

On 1/21/2013 10:26, Rob Kimberley wrote:
> http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/28/09/2012/54676/raspberry-pi-gets
> -a-competitor.htm
>    

Olimex is also making an A10 board with sound industrial design, to be 
available in the near future. The advantage here for time-nuts is that 
the A10 comes with a real Ethernet MAC instead of the USB-based one used 
on the Raspberry Pi, which will vastly improve network performance for 
NTP or PTP. Both the Cubie and the Olimex board should be making

I don't know how much the Olimex board will cost, it will probably be 
slightly more again than the Cubie but considering the Olimex will have 
a more flexible power input scheme and some other nice features I would 
recommend it over this board. Olimex is also a long-running 
hobbyist-friendly business and sells through Digi-Key and other 
distributors, wheras Cubie is "kickstarted" and thus more likely to have 
some teething problems getting a product out the door.

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/a10s-olinuxino-micro-first-prototypes-work-fine/

-- m. tharp