#ALLWINNER A64 PROCESSOR REVIEW FULL#
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Power, Ethernet, and HDMI are all on one side of the board, USB and the 3.5mm mic and headphone jack are opposite, the SD card is along the side.

#ALLWINNER A64 PROCESSOR REVIEW FULL#

ThereвЂ™s a lot of space on the Pine64, and the headers, ports, and plugs take full advantage of this fact. This is significantly larger than the current crop of Raspberry Pis and the Odroid C2. ItвЂ™s just a hair larger than 3вЂі x 5вЂі, more exactly 127mm x 79mm.

#ALLWINNER A64 PROCESSOR REVIEW PLUS#

The top-tier Pine64+ 2GB includes 2GB of RAM, priced at $29, plus $7 shipping to the US, $12 for the rest of the world.ДЄlthough this is a little esoteric for a hardware un-review, I would like to mention the mechanical layout of the Pine64. This version costs $19 USD, plus $7 shipping to the US, $12 for the rest of the world. The Pine64+ includes 1GB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and connectors for a camera, LCD, and a touch panel. The lowest tier, the one being reviewed here, is $15 USD with worldwide shipping. Right now, the Pine64 is available for preorder in three configurations. ThatвЂ™s surprisingly fast for a Kickstarter campaign, and not at all a knock atВ the Pine team.

According to the Kickstarter campaign, this board should have shipped in February. This is the reward for pledging $15 to the Pine64 Kickstarter campaign. This un-review covers the least expensive Pine64,В featuring a 1.2 GHz Allwinner A64, 512MB of RAM, Ethernet, HDMI, and two USB ports. Shenzhen and Guangzhou, the вЂSilicon DeltaвЂ™ Hardware This post is not a review, as I canвЂ™t fully document the Pine64 experience. I pledged $15 USD to the Pine64 Kickstarter, and received a board with 512MB of RAM, 4K HDMI, 10/100 Ethernet and a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A53 CPU in return. The boards are beginning to land on the doorsteps and mailboxes of backers, and the initial impressions are showing up in the official forums and Kickstarter campaign comments. Introduced to the world through a KickstarterВ that netted $1.7 Million USD from 36,000 backers, the Pine64 is already extremely popular. One of the first of these 64-bit boards is the Pine64. The hardware was there вЂ“ powerful 64-bit ARM chips were available, all that was needed was a few engineers to put these chips on a board, a few marketing people, and a contract manufacturer. Even before the announcement and introduction of the Raspberry Pi 3, word of a few very powerful single board ARM Linux computers was flowing out of China.

Allwinner a64 processor review