Its hard to decide whether to get this or a Raspberry Pi, talking to someone who has a Raspberry Pi, they have found that running even a graphical interface like lxde is slow and involves a lot of hacking.
Although I fully expected this, I wonder whether I've outgrown that sort of fooling around, and would rather play with something a little bigger like this, which packs a (slightly) bigger punch.
Not sure what I want from either device, other than something that could be another thing to play with.
Just depends on what you'll use it for. My rpi has proven a more-than-capable mail server, and anything with more oomph would just cost more (and suck more power)
It depends on what you want. If you want linux μC programming then RPi has a bunch of GPIO pins which I'm sure will be easily addressable under Linux. I'm not able to see anything like that on this one. But holy mother of god, this has 6 USB ports...
That's kind of the point though. Why waste the money? If it's just to tinker, fine. But I use my Raspberry Pi as a streaming endpoint and it works well. I have to cope with transcoding my 1080p content down though. That's the only reason I'd see shelling out for one of these.
This is based on the assumption that most people on HN aren't going to seriously use one of these cheap ARM devices as anything more than a toy. Even if you wanted a thin client of sorts, the RPi is more than capable.
Although I fully expected this, I wonder whether I've outgrown that sort of fooling around, and would rather play with something a little bigger like this, which packs a (slightly) bigger punch.
Not sure what I want from either device, other than something that could be another thing to play with.