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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Android PC vs Hackberry A10



After the Raspberry Pi, the APC and Hackberry A10 are the latest entrants in the hugely popular line of ultra small motherboards designed to run any thing from the Android OS to trimmed down Linux distributions. But keep in mind that these are development boards, not mobos that you can buy and build a standard desktop computer from.
No wonder they are popular with tinkerers, developers and wannabe DIYers. No doubt that they will eventually go mainstream, but for now, these boards are a hacker’s delight. This article presents a casual comparison of the Android Personal Computer (APC) and the Hackberry A10.



FeaturesAndroid PC (APC)
APC
Hackberry A10
A10
CompanyA product of VIA Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Taipei, TaiwanA product of Miniand, a technology company based in Canberra, Australia.
ProcessorVIA 800MHz ProcessorAllwinner A10 ARM Cortex A8 clocking at 1.2GHz
This is obviously a more powerful system than the APC.
Graphics (GPU)Hardware 2D/3D Graphic.
Resolution up to 720p
Not as powerful a graphics processing power as the A10
Mali 400 (4 max GPU cores). Hardware 3D acceleration and video decoding.Resolution 1080p
Memory512 MB DDR3 512 MB to 1 GB DDR3
There are two different models, one with 512 MB of RAM and another with 1 GB.
ConnectivityHDMI
VGA
USB 2.0 (x4)
microSD Slot
HDMI
VGA
USB 2.0 (x2)
microSD Slot
4-pin serial port
Storage2 GB NAND Flash. 4 GB NAND Flash. SDHC card slot supporting up to 32 GB
Networking10/100 Ethernet10/100 Ethernet, Realtek 802.11n WiFi
Supported OScustom Android systemAndroid 4.0 ICS, Linux
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Resources
The price tag for the APC is USD $49, but because of overwhelming demand, the company has stopped taking pre-orders - for now.

Home page. Download the kernel and boot loader from
here.
The price tag for the 512 MB model of the A10 is USD $60, but is currently out of stock. The 1 GB model is due at the end of this month and the published price tag is USD $65.

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