1/8/17 9:48 PM

Seems like a cheap media server for Plex for similar is doable.

1/9/17 7:54 AM

Would somebody translate this for me? Or at least dumb it down?

1/9/17 8:39 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

1/10/17 9:57 AM

I prefer strawbarb pie. Yum!

1/10/17 12:37 PM

Wouldn't an outdated smart phone still outperform one of these mini-pc thingies?

Not sure about the I/o limitations and higher-level interface constraints, but even an old smartphone would seem to pack a lot of power at very low cost IF you can tap into it from whatever side is needed for an application.
I read it yesterday, and I'm no computer hobbyist, so can't remember whether the article even mentioned whether people were connecting these cards to a regular full-size monitor, or what the end user was after.

1/10/17 1:45 PM

designed to be a modded gizmo with USB ports, various connections, extensible memory, etc. and a community that exists to make these things into god-knows-what for experimentation/innovation.

old androids smartphones are more closed/dead-end systems and iphones are even more closed than that.

once an r-pi gets modded to a point where someone wants to make a more turn-key application for a specific purpose, then you can go to an OEM and create whatever customized r-pi derived gizmo that might very well end up similar to an old smartphone hardware.