Raspberry Pi finally gets competition
 

And the higher end model sports a 1.2 GHZ dual core cpu and 1 gig of ram. Finally powerful enough to get me interested

http://www.eteknix.com/hummingboard-...now-available/

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Wiki page
Manufacturer page

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Was looking at this yesterday and it is indeed nice, especially the better model with the gigabit network too. Looking at the price and then delivery on top it's not far off the price of these(Intel DN2820FYKH Barebone Desktop (Celeron N2820 2.39GHz, HD Graphics, WLAN, Bluetooth 4.0), so i'm torn on which to get.

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the barebones would be sweet if you had ram and an ssd to throw at it. My media centre is just a celery and it has no problems

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ebuyer has it cheaper with free delivery http://www.ebuyer.com/614389-nuc-box...FSjpwgodkWIAyQ

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I might get the barebone one and run it from usb so it can be a small silent box in the front room. xbmc would be nice on it but also been looking for a small decent cpu box I can configure with vpn client to connect to a server and then use it as a gateway for rest of the network to go through. My little NAS box doesn't have the power to go much above 3Mb/s on it's small cpu as openvpn is pretty heavy. The hummingbird being an A9 Cortex is still pretty basic compared to what else is out there at that size and price.

For xbmc there are those android box's which are quad core mali's. Now xbmc supports hardware acceleration properly in them, they could work out much cheaper, can use xbmc but also everything else from the android market.

Getting lots of choices around similar price ranges lately. Spoilt for choice for gadgets :D

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All round no better than a $50 smartphone and lacking the screen, 3G, camera and Wifi capabilities, making it only particularly sensible if you need the desktop-class I/O interfaces rather than mobile. For things such as wireless sensor networks and embedded monitoring devices you'd be far better off buying an Android phone.

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Keeping my out on the Gigabyte Brix but it won't be for a media pc it will be for a lan pc, which is why I am not looking at the Pi and others like it.

The Brix though would be alright for media but it just cost's a little bit to much just for that use.

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When will this be available?

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FYI
http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/

Only PSU options are 220V Euro or 110V US/Japan - no 3 pin UK?

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UK visitor adapter from a pound shop will solve that.

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Happened to come across the original article I was reading that mentioned the hummingbird:

Create your own GSM base station using the BeagleBone

You need to get the transmitter which adds about £400 on top but just think of the (illegal) fun that could be had intercepting everyone's mobile calls by setting this up without authentication, in the same way the security services (and increasingly the police) use the Stingray.

I also remember reading that there was about 14 or 15 dollars or quid postage on top of the price for the Beagle, as well as not having the UK plug, which was another reason the NUC's seemed better value for some uses.

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Never mind £400, a standard USB software defined radio with GNU radio and OpenBTS will do the same thing for less than £200 when connected to any old PC.

Or, as I mentioned above, get an Android phone for the same price which already has a built-in GSM transceiver...