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If you are interested in the BeagleBone also check out the Cubieboard. It's a more powerful Pi, essentially. Dual core, 1GB of RAM, SATA.

http://cubieboard.org/




The Cubie eeks out the Hackberry in the latest revision, if you're interested in CPU power. Allwinner A20 rather than A10.


All of the Allwinner boards have mostly-closed Mali GPUs and closed but partially reverse-engineered CedarX VPUs.

Outside of Android the Mali GPUs are a bit of a bear to get working at all, much less use for anything useful.

For headless tasks I agree that Cubie/Hackberry are faster dollar-for-dollar than the Pi, but the Pi's VideoCore GPU, while still blob-encumbered, at least provides a documented interface with working drivers for both the "traditional" X11 stack and Android, as well as a real OpenMAX video decoding interface.




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