APC the Raspberry pi competitor
Posted: 24 May 2012, 15:52
The Android PC System can do a bit more than Raspberry pi and is a bit more expensive (49 $).
ACP is an ARM-based System-on-a-Chip running Android, so you are locked down a bit more than with Raspberry pi.
Performance improvements are mainly due to the double amount of RAM (512 MB) and a 800 Mhz cpu.
It also has more ports which is only natural since it is bigger than Raspberry pi.
APC was not built like an ordinary PC. For openers, we started with an awareness that the purpose of a computer is to connect to the Internet. It is the Internet that now defines computing. When you begin here, magic happens.
Expensive, overpowered CPUs and bloated software are no longer relevant. With this awareness, we were able to drop power consumption to the point of making an energy-saving light-bulb jealous.
Interesting! But I am not as charmed by this one as I am by Rasberry pi - yet.