[Hamara-devel] Just Got Raspberry Pi Delivered

[Gurvinder]

On Saturday 31 October 2015 03:39 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 30/10/15 23:14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Quoting Vikas Tara (2015-10-30 11:48:10)
>>> We have been using raspberry pi because we got to it first - but we're
>>> not particularly tied to it.
>>>
>>> A more powerful board (more memory than rpi2) would be helpful in any
>>> case.
>>>
>>> The plan is to have a very cheap pre-installed hamara SBC available
>>> for people to buy - would be interested in your recommendation of what
>>> that SBC should be.
>> "cheap" and "more powerful" pulls in opposite directions ;-)
>>
>> Short answer: Use OLinuXino A20 LIME2!
>>
>> More details...:
>>
>> Raspberry Pi 2 Model B:       EUR 32.87
>> Raspberry Pi 2 official case: EUR 7.61
>>
>> OLinuXIno LIME2:              EUR 45
>> OLinuXIno LIME official case: EUR  5
> OK - it's worth us getting some hardware in order to make a build for 
> this board. Gurvinder - do you want to get one in?
Sure i do not see any problem in that, the specs looks similar to 
cubietruck in terms of processor. I guess Cubietruck build should work 
on it otherwise there will not be an issue creating one.

I also like Cubieboard because of the specification though more 
expensive that both boards. Cubieboard has recently launched i guess 
version 3 and 4 which has more power in terms of RAM and you get pretty 
much all ports you can think of. However it is double the cost of both 
boards.

If i were given a choice and I have good budget, I would like to go for 
Cubietruck because of more power and number of different connector 
availability.

However if I have less budget then I will definitely would like to 
choose OLinuXIno LIME.

>
> I feel price point is very critical as reaching people that do not 
> have access to computing equipment is high on our agenda.
>
> Equipping a school room for example - the above price difference would 
> matter to some who are on very limited budgets.
In india, there are few things always matters
- Money
- After sales warranty.
- Popularity

If I am selling Raspberry Pi as a solution to some organization then I 
would definetly go for Raspberry Pi because
- There are direct sellers available in India and it is still cheaper 
that OLinuXIno LIME with taxes if i am not wrong.
- Popularity
- After sales warranty support. Atleast I have someone where I can go 
and get replacement if hardware goes bad.

>
> Raspberry have just announced the production of customised boards for 
> OEM's - do you know of anything similar from OlinuXIno?
I saw that new as well, They have started realizing that they can 
actually make more money by customizing hardware rather than selling 
plain vanila version. I think it is good step and it will help expand 
Raspberry Pi customer base.

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