The VIA is using an ARM11 chip, but the genesi and beagleboard are using the ARM8. The ARM8 is quite a step up from the ARM11 in terms of speed, like Pentium 2 to Pentium 4 from a performance standpoint. Though I do have a ARM11 running Android 2.3 and it performs okay, graphically intense games stutter quite a bit, but it can watch youtube (not in HD) and surf the web just fine on it. The VIA is very attractive to me as I need an excuse to buy more crap to play with. I think I will make a media player for my daughter to watch her TV shows on with it. Right now I am using an old Dell PC and it is noisy, big and probably has 50 times the power consumption of this little board.
ARM11 is not better than ARM8? Whats the deal with that....
