[Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform

[peter green]

Erix wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> first at all, Merry Christmas to all of you.
>
> what do you think about this "new" one?
>
> http://www.tbsdtv.com/launch/tbs-2910-matrix-arm-mini-pc.html
>
> driven by a Freescal MCIMX6Q5EYM10AC / Quad ARM Cortex-A9 at 1.0GHz
> and 10/100/1000 wired Ethernet, WIFI IEEE 802.11n/b/g + SATA
And don't forget the 2GB ram.

Overall there seem to be lots of hacker friendly products coming out 
based on the IMX6 which bodes well for future software support. I'm 
going to compare this one with the WBQUAD as it's the one i'm familiar 
with that is reasonablly priced and has 2GB of ram.
>
> the GPIO port looks a bit...  little.
OTOH it looks like it's on an easilly accessible pin header socket, the 
WBQUAD has lots of IO pins but they are on tiny connectors. This board 
has a miniPCIe slot, the WBQUAD doesn't.

This board has EMMC the WBQUAD doesn't.

The makers of this board look like they will be giving lots of support 
for using it as a TV box.

This seems to come with a case, cases for the wandboard quad are an 
optional extra.

This board uses a heatsink/fan for cooling while the wandboard quad uses 
a large passive heatsink.

The wandboard quad is a CPU module and baseboard combination, this means 
that you could take just the CPU module and integrate it in your 
product. This product comes is a single board.

All these features may be either very important or totally irrelevent 
depending on your application.

In terms of nominal price this board seems to be a little more expensive 
than a wandboard quad. How that translates to final price will of course 
depend on where you live (and i'm not going to create an account just to 
find out if they offer any all inclusive options to the EU or if I have 
to wait and see what I get charged after it arrives).