On Tue, October 21, 2014 10:39 pm, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > On 10/21/2014 12:46 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > <snip> >>> >>> Nice devices but are they fanless? >> >> No, but they are very quiet. >> > > Bummer, I wouldn't trust on a device that has fans for on stage use. > Every DJ I know uses a laptop with a fan so it depends on how you intend to use them. As a stomp box it's probably not a good idea but for a linuxsampler/pianoteq/realtime synth module which sits on a stable dry surface it shouldn't be a problem. >>> They also seem to be fairly big, I >>> guess a Cubieboard is 4x as small as a NUC board. But I haven't really >>> compared the measurements yet so I could be wrong. >>> >> >> This particular model has a slightly larger case. The other models are >> not >> as tall. The physical size is approx 10x10x4cm so they are very portable >> and the solid aluminium casing is very robust. >> >> Cubieboards are also very good units but they have some drawbacks too. >> They are not as powerful as a Celeron and they require cross compiling >> everything. > > Not entirely true, most of the software is readily available in the > repositories. If you need unpackaged software or newer versions of > software you need to recompile, yes. I've got a toolchain set-up for > this (an ARM chroot with everything installed needed for Debian > packaging) and it would also be possible to do this on the device > itself. But indeed, on a x86 machine it's not as trivial as building > stuff for x86 itself. > > IIUC, they also don't support the same amount of memory. >> > > No idea ;) Never checked that actually since most devices I know don't > come with memory slots or memory chips that can be piggybacked. > The ARM platform shouldn't have a problem with larger memory but the cubietrucks and all the portable/low end ARM devices I have seen do not provide support for large amounts of RAM. The highest I have seen is 2GB. >> As a stand alone device the NUC's can do very well as a relatively low >> cost processing unit. For the same form factor you can also get an i5 >> chipset. I'm not sure if they have released the i7's yet but they are >> probably just around the corner. The top end i5's are very close to the >> same speed as an i7. > > Yeah, I'm definitely going to check them out, such a device would be > awesome as a multimedia player. So thanks for the info! > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
