[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard max. Couple of questions

[David Anders]

Per,

On 05/19/2014 02:51 AM, Per Ottosson wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I got a couple of questions about the Minnowboard Max:
>
> 1) I read these article about a new version 1.91 Ghz and 2 GB ram for 
> $99. When is this version released?
> http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/intel-releases-99-minnowboard-max-an-open-source-single-board-computer/
>
> On the webpage i can only see minnowboard max with lower clockrates.
>

we have sent repeated emails to Techcrunch requesting that the correct 
the article, however they have not done so.

here is the correct information:

#1 option - Single Core 1.46 GHz with 1GB of RAM for $99.00
#2 option - Dual Core 1.33GHz with 2GB of RAM for $139.00

we expect to offer a single core with higher clock rate as well as a 
quad core version, however the pricing and features for those models has 
not been announced as of yet.


> 2) Im using it mainly for running processing (processing.org 
> <http://processing.org>) and arduino (www.arduino.cc 
> <http://www.arduino.cc> ) I wounder if these two will work? at the 
> moment Im using Raspberry Pi but since its very slow Im looking for a 
> better solution. I found this page:
> https://github.com/MinnowBoard/processing
>
> Is this for installing processing on Minnowboard or how does it work?
>

the Userspace-Arduino project 
(https://github.com/prpplague/Userspace-Arduino) allows arduino style 
programming environment to work on any linux based system. the project 
will be ported to run on the MinnowBoard Max. the userspace-arduino 
project is the basis of support used in the Galileo board from Intel.


> 3) Can I run Linux on the board?
>

Linux is primary OS that will be targeted for use on the MinnowBoard Max


> 4) The problem with the raspbian pi and processing is that Processing 
> doesnt co-operate with the Pis hardware-accelearation , so anything 
> using video or 3D will be very slow. Does this work better on 
> Minnowboard Max 1.91
>

i am not sure what you are referring to here. you might need might to 
provide more details...

> 5) How much RAM does it ship with?
>

as stated above there will be different models available with different 
memory configurations.

Dave

> Thanks!
>
> Per
>
>
>
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