[TriEmbed] In need of a tiny, cheap, powerful(ish) computer

Adam Haile email at adamhaile.net
Mon Sep 21 13:55:39 CDT 2015


Sadly, nothing to do with that... I'm already getting bad enough
performance with it when everything is generated in code. That was just an
example.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Ted Pudlik <tpudlik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could the Pi be limited by the slowness of its SD card reader?  Perhaps if
> you used an external hard drive, you could get better performance for the
> video files.
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:52 PM Adam Haile via TriEmbed <
> triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a recommendation for a decent, tiny, and cheap (<$150) PC? I
>> need something to drive the big LED display permanently. The original plan
>> was to use a Raspberry Pi 2, but it lacked the necessary oomph. I was able
>> to run it with little problem off my Lenovo S21e (Celeron N2840) but I
>> wouldn't want to go less powerful than that. And I'd rather higher clock
>> speed (> 2GHz) than more cores. Right now, my only real thought is to buy
>> another S21e (about $170) but a whole laptop seems kind of silly... and for
>> some odd reason, I cannot get basically the same hardware in a tiny PC...
>> you know, without a screen, keyboard, and battery :P
>>
>> Note... part of the reason for the needed power is I've got it setup to
>> do some video display, both from video files and a webcam... that is just
>> dog slow on the Pi.
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