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Board Project Development
Re: Nice! Bitnodes Hardware - run a full node!
by
DiamondCardz
on 30/05/2015, 10:01:22 UTC
Definitely seems nice with the dashboard and the nice display, but I can get a quad-core 900MHz processor over this quad-core 600MHz processor as well as the same 1GB SDRAM from a Raspberry Pi 2 for only $35. You're paying a lot for aesthetics there...I guess for people who aren't too fussed about saving cash and want something that's much easier to setup this is good, though.

The ODROID-C1 base board is priced at $35 as well. You are not paying anything for aesthetics for Bitnodes Hardware as most of the cost goes to the 8GB eMMC and 64GB microSD.

I see. I don't know about the cost of the eMMC, I can pick up a 64GB microSD for just under £20 though (that comes to around ~$30). I suppose if the eMMC has a similar cost then the price of the thing as a whole is reasonable, because obviously you can't expect the whole thing to cost the same as the cost of the parts used to make it.