What's "weird" with a non-profit organization?
You are either ignorant of the fact that RPi is a non-profit foundation with the purpose of promoting an exceptional educational tool (the RPi) or you are just trolling. So, which is it?
As duly noted by other posters above, the RPi is not about performance. If you are worried about the performance of an ARM development board, you have many choices. Currently the highest performance ARM development is the NVIDIA Jetson TK1, it costs around $200 and uses a fan to cool the CPU. And of course my Xeon workstation runs rings around the TK1 when, for example, cross-compiling a Linux kernel.
If you just need a little bit more processing power than provided by the RPi, you should check the Banana Pi, it has a dual core Cortex A7 CPU and approx. the same dimensions as the RPi. Last time I checked it was also 50% more expensive than the RPi.
Originally posted by caligula
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As duly noted by other posters above, the RPi is not about performance. If you are worried about the performance of an ARM development board, you have many choices. Currently the highest performance ARM development is the NVIDIA Jetson TK1, it costs around $200 and uses a fan to cool the CPU. And of course my Xeon workstation runs rings around the TK1 when, for example, cross-compiling a Linux kernel.
If you just need a little bit more processing power than provided by the RPi, you should check the Banana Pi, it has a dual core Cortex A7 CPU and approx. the same dimensions as the RPi. Last time I checked it was also 50% more expensive than the RPi.
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