[Liverpool] Rasberry Pi

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 14/03/12 14:28, Andrew Williams wrote:
> On 14 March 2012 13:49, Simon Ward<simon+lug at bleah.co.uk>  wrote:
>> Tiny charity has its product hyped up, makes some mistakes in the
>> *first* batch… result: eager consumers get all upset and give said
>> charity a bit of a beating. Is there anyone else who thinks this is a
>> little bit unfair?
>
> I was more concerned that they handed out future production and
> current distribution to Farnell/RS and didn't even know that RS wasn't
> going to start taking orders on first day. I think that indicates more
> problems than just the odd website being heavily overloaded.
>
>
> On 14 March 2012 09:28, Sebastian Arcus<shop at open-t.co.uk>  wrote:
>> I suppose only if the transcoding software knows how to use the GPU
>> horsepower - otherwise I somehow doubt the 700MHz ARM will be faster then
>> the 900MHz Celeron in the Eee 701?
>
> Thats what i'm hoping for. With the Eee i've got no further to go, at
> least with the RPi the GPU could help out. Also clockspeed is not a
> good indicator of overall performance.

That's true - but as far as I'm aware, CPU's of same clock speed are 
faster for most tasks in the case of x86 then ARM - if my information is 
correct. I'm not including here any side effects from the quality or 
speed of the GPU.

Sebastian



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