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jwcooper | karma 1182 | avg karma 6.6 · 2015-02-02 00:08:49

There are many reasons.

The large community that is involved with the Pi. The large number of tutorials, and guides available. The incredible amount of accessories available and customized for the Pi. The Pi has the momentum. The odroid-C1 may be fantastic, but it's the first time I've ever heard of it.

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sounds | karma 5584 | avg karma 3.76 · 2015-02-02 07:21:18+00:00

I hesitate to chime in, but in the interest of completeness:

The Odroids all use Mali graphics. Mali isn't particularly worse than the Pi's VideoCore IV, but it's not particularly better either...

And the BeagleBone vs Pi comparison here is worth reading: http://section9.choamco.com/2012/07/beagleboard-vs-beagleboa...

P.S. I double-checked that the Odroids are all shipping with Mali. Happy to be proven wrong though. Does anyone know of similar-priced dev boards from Qualcomm? Qualcomm's Adreno is definitely the most interesting GPU architecture in this space. Adreno is an anagram of Radeon.

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pella | karma 8131 | avg karma 5.75 · 2015-02-02 09:11:42+00:00

other dev boards:

"Ringing in 2015 with 40 Linux-friendly hacker SBCs" (Dec 31, 2014)

http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2015-with-40-linux-friendl...

"Nine sub-$50 SBCs that challenge the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black: 86Duino, A10-OLinuXino-Lime, Arduino TRE, Banana Pi, BPi D1, HummingBoard-i1, Odroid-C1, Orange Pi, and pcDuino3 Nano"

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freehunter | karma 23077 | avg karma 2.83 · 2015-02-06 17:40:07+00:00

Wow, some of those names... lots of *duino and Pi. And anyone would wonder why people choose Arduino and RPi, because everything else is an imitation.