I was reading this article on Slash. and found that the Rasberry Pi now has a firm competitor called ODROID Specs: Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A5(ARMv7) 1.5Ghz quad core CPUs Mali™-450 MP2 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 enabled for Linux and Android) 1Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM Gigabit Ethernet 40pin GPIOs eMMC4.5 HS200 Flash Storage slot / UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD Card slot USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB OTG x 1, Infrared(IR) Receiver Ubuntu 14.04 or Android KitKat
Oh booman, I hate you right now! I actually want to pick ODROID-C1 but as a poor college student I can't I realllllyy want one though By the way this doesn't belong here in my opinion... since it's not a 'Help!" thread
Isn't it awesome! I didn't get one, but my mouth is watering right now! Since I'm a gamer, the one thing I fear with ARM is that I have to emulate to play my games. I know there is a lot of Android games that should run on it, but I would love to play my x86 games as well. I was thinking of making a Media Center out of it and plug it into my TV The movies/music would be hosted on my server, then streamed to the ODROID Maybe I could even stream games from Steam?
Steam is x86. I don't think you can get games from Steam to run on the thing except ARM compatible ones of course :[
That is what I'm worried about. If anything it would be a nice $35 media center for movies. I still have a DVD player and a VHS. My amp is too old for modern BlueRay players, so I need to build a media center with 1/8 surround jacks. Otherwise, I will have to purchase a new amp.
