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  • curaga
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    Good point, I don't have one myself, I went by their official information.

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  • AJSB
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    Originally posted by curaga View Post
    Neo-ITX is fully compatible with the larger standards.

    So you can put it in a Mini-ITX case, Micro-ATX case, or even a full ATX case. The only thing you lose by going with a Mini-ITX case vs a native Neo-ITX case is some size, which at these levels doesn't really matter.
    Fully compatible ?!?

    Well two of the four mounting holes might be compatible but the other two aren't for sure, they are clearly spaced in a different way than a Mini-ITX.

    Here are pics taken from below of a VIA APC....



    ...and from a typical Mini-ITX motherboard....



    Clearly only two mounting holes are compatible.

    Of course that you can that you can install yourself some standoffs...

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  • t.s.
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    allwinner a10 with that price, meh! overpriced!
    I'll try to snap an odroid u

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  • curaga
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    Originally posted by AJSB View Post
    Well i disagree in the two points:

    VIA APC doesn't use the Mini-ITX standard but Neo-ITX standard....i don't even know of anyone that makes standard cases for it...
    Neo-ITX is fully compatible with the larger standards.

    So you can put it in a Mini-ITX case, Micro-ATX case, or even a full ATX case. The only thing you lose by going with a Mini-ITX case vs a native Neo-ITX case is some size, which at these levels doesn't really matter.

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  • AJSB
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    PS: ...as for lack of interest , VIA sold in some days all production of the APC....look to the interest in ODROID-X(2) , CubieBoard, etc.....a proper ARM solution using a proper standard and connections for CPU and RAM would sell as hotcakes...

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  • AJSB
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    Originally posted by curaga View Post
    I completely agree on the need for an ARM board with standard interfaces and mounting holes. The only one so far I know of is Via's APC.

    I guess the would-be users of such a thing just aren't a big enough market.
    Well i disagree in the two points:

    VIA APC doesn't use the Mini-ITX standard but Neo-ITX standard....i don't even know of anyone that makes standard cases for it...

    Many of the Mini-ITX owners use then for HTPC , Web Surf, NAS, simple office tasks and even for very light gaming....

    All those tasks could be done with a lower price and lower power drain ARM-based Mini-ITX board.

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  • curaga
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    I completely agree on the need for an ARM board with standard interfaces and mounting holes. The only one so far I know of is Via's APC.

    I guess the would-be users of such a thing just aren't a big enough market.

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  • AJSB
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    AMD bought ATI and INTEL is also serious in develop their iGPU hardware....in the long run, discrete video cards will have a worse fate than the one of dinosaurs.

    So what can NVIDIA do ?
    Embrace ARM CPU tech and stuck inside of it a iGPU (with all their expertise they can pull off a very good piece of hardware) and the APU war will have 3 sides (INTEL, AMD and NVIDIA)


    ANYWAY....all that is not trully important to me right now....


    RIGHT NOW what i would love to have is that some darn OEM would made a MINI-ITX MoBo with a TEGRA3 (and in the future, TEGRA4) or Exynos5 CPU (actually is an APU) with a bunch of USB, VGA (YES, we STILL need them !), HDMI , Audio, eSata, etc. connectors where usually they are in a MINI-ITX MoBo, some extra connectors in the mobo for SATA, front audio , USB, eSata, etc. and at least one DDR3 DIMM or SO-DIMM connector so we can use standard RAM modules.

    Finish it with a standard ATX PSU 24pin connector and the ARM CPU/APU in a module that could be connected/upgraded to the MoBo in a similar way than a AMD FM1/FM2 socket APU and i would be in heaven after sticking all this in a totally fanless MINI-ITX or Thin MINI-ITX case with buildin AC/DC converter of 60W or even less ....



    BUT NOOOOO....they have to waste their time with freaking tablets with microscopic keyboards, (touch)screens,etc.

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  • droidhacker
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    Originally posted by shmerl View Post
    How open is Allwinner in compariosn with Tegra 3 overall? GPU drivers are still closed, and what else? Nexus 7 sounds like a better deal in general, since Nvidia is serious about Linux support now. Mer / PlasmaActive images for Nexus 7 will probably appear sometime soon.
    Tegra3 is crap, its just cortex A9's and a bunch of anti-linux nvidia crap.
    Nvidia is NOT "serious" about linux support at all. FAR FROM IT. They're doing the absolute BARE MINIMUM to fool suckers into believing that they are. That's all.

    Qualcomm Snapdragon is at least as open as allwinner, and all from INTENTIONAL information releases (partly from AMD RADEON documentation, since Adreno is, more or less, Radeon). They're also a much more powerful component, being KRAIT/~cortexA15.

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  • oliver
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    Originally posted by shmerl View Post
    How open is Allwinner in compariosn with Tegra 3 overall? GPU drivers are still closed, and what else? Nexus 7 sounds like a better deal in general, since Nvidia is serious about Linux support now. Mer / PlasmaActive images for Nexus 7 will probably appear sometime soon.
    FAR more open.

    I'm sure many people drewl over the tegra's 3 specs, yes it's a nice and powerfull SoC. But don't expect miracles. I'm still not convinced of nVidia's newly discovered enlightenment. My money is on the fact, they are doing what is minimally required to make the linux crowd happy so they can sell more SoC's. 3D core? Doubt that will ever happen. Video core? Does it even have one? I guess the 3D core takes care of that. So very unliky that'll happen.

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