Via announces $49 PC with Android OS

[takemehomegrandma]

@gizmo350

Press Release with info

It seems it's using an ARM11 CPU from WonderMedia, meaning it would be WonderMedia Prizm WM8750.

The Raspberry Pi is also using an ARM11 CPU, but the CPU Via will be using is clocked at 800MHz and the Raspberry at 700MHz.

The ARM 11 is a really old and slow design though, and I would say that many of my arguments in favor of Efika MX instead would be true for this one as well...

[takemehomegrandma]

What people always forget about something like the Raspberry Pi is that is falls into the impulse buy category... £20 for a computer, sure why not...

...and then you find out that it's not *really* usable as a computer because of its limitations, so it just ends up in that pile of unused stuff in your garage.

[takemehomegrandma]

Any one do the benchmarks for the EFIKA-MX?  I would like to see the link between that and the SAMs' benchmarks.

There are many ways you can benchmark things, and here is one:

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7675&viewmode=flat&sortorder=0&start=164

Please note that Andreas "scaled" the Sam's results to 800MHz, meaning that their real numbers are much lower. Also, I am pretty certain that HW FPU wasn't used on the Efika MX...

[takemehomegrandma]

BTW - takemehome grandma, you're now quoting Andreas?!

Why wouldn't I?