Have you seen the PINE 64?

General Discussion
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I was wanting a CHIP before the Pine was announced.

The biggest problems I have are

  1. it’s been promised for about a year
  2. It’s not really $9 when you factor in the video adapters cost more than the computer… $10 VGA & $15 HDMI… That makes the $9 CHIP a $24 Pi A+

(don’t get me wrong, though… I’ll still buy one if they ever start shipping. ROFL )

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C.H.I.P is still worth it at $9 + shipping. Not worth if you are going to use it with the Monitor etc. Headless Server is a great application.

Gives RPi-0 a run for its money.

Yes the shipping takes away the fun from the costing, which is the case with most of the KickStarter project.

With a fixed Memory (NAND-FLASH) on the Hardware, Diet-Pi seems like a must… that’s my personal opinion.

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yeah… My co-worker got in on the kickstarter and brought his in to the office a while back. I’ve changed my opinion on the C.H.I.P.

I’ll probably order one from their next production run.

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Wish I was living in America :wink:

  • $9 = chip
  • $6.22= shipping
  • £8 = HMRC tax
  • £8 = “handling fee”

Rob: Would you be up for doing the DietPi image on the C.H.I.P if you get one?

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Hi rhkean,

Yes, … please!

Thanks in advance.

cu
k-plan

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absolutely! It’ll be a week or 2 before I can order it, though. We had a plumbing emergency in the house over the weekend… The repairs to the house and bank account need to happen first. :thinking:

(at least that’s what my wife keeps telling me) :smiley:

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Excellent ! :slight_smile:

We had a plumbing emergency in the house over the weekend… The repairs to the house and bank account need to happen first. > :thinking: >

Gutted, hopefully not too much damage to appliances?
Our washing machine packed in the other day, all digs into the bank :frowning: Although the good news, it handles 8KG load, yay!

(at least that’s what my wife keeps telling me) > :smiley:

Lmao :slight_smile: Tell her the CHIP can be used to detect water in the house :wink:

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Bwuahahahahaha!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :smiley: :rofl: :mrgreen:

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Well - I’ve got 2 x Pine 64+ (2GB + wifi/bt)…

I’ve got 5 CHIPs (one’s a PocketCHIP), and another 4 on the way…

The whole “CHIP” ecosystem is light years ahead of Pine… Pine are still mesolithic… I didn’t really buy them for a desktop experience - they’re for discreet “headless” tasks mostly… was hoping to use a Pine with a Motorola Lapdock as a “desktop experience”.

Anyway - got DietPI on one of them now (other one’s running Armbian “headless”).

Few teething issues with DietPI on this “pizzo di merda” (that is, literally, its hostname) - but it’s HEAPs better than the Debian build pointed to by their forum… I’ll find a more appropriate thread to post my questions…

I commented on the Pine64 forum it was a shame that DietPI didn’t have XFCE as an option - and NOW IT DOES!

What other SBCs have I got? I’ve got an original plain-jane BananaPI… I’ve got an Orange PI Plus 2E on the way…

As far as stability and software goes, CHIP and Banana run rings around the Pine…