MIPS Tempts Hackers With Raspbery Pi-like Dev Board 88
DeviceGuru (1136715) writes "In a bid to harness the energy and enthusiasm swirling around today's open, hackable single board computers, Imagination Technologies, licensor of the MIPS ISA, has unveiled the Creator C120 development board, the ISA's counter to ARM's popular Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black SBCs. The MIPS dev board is based on a 1.2GHz dual-core MIPS32 system-on-chip and has 1GB RAM and 8GB flash, and there's also an SD card slot for expansion. Ports include video, audio, Ethernet, both WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, and a bunch more. OS images are already available for Debian 7, Gentoo, Yocto, and Arch Linux, and Android v4.4 is expected to be available soon. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the board is that there's no pricing listed yet, because the company is starting out by giving the boards away free to developers who submit the most interesting projects."
no price? (Score:4, Insightful)
The entire appeal of the raspberry pi was that it cost only $35. This new thing, you won't even tell us the price. If you need to ask, you can't afford it...
Re:no price? (Score:4, Insightful)
Sold it cheaper? Why?
The Rpi has an excellent price, it's low enough that price is not the deciding factor on using it.