stop comparing the raspberry pi and sharks cove
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Why the Raspberry Pi and Sharks Cove aren't competitors despite what you may have read on the interwebs. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Find me on Twitter @KevinSidwar.TRANSCRIPT
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Raspberry Pi and
Sharks CoveWhy They Aren’t Competitors
or Rivals
Sharks CoveLogo
Coming…uh…
Soon
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Microsoft recently released the Sharks Cove development board.
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Almost instantly people started calling it a Raspberry Pi alternative/competitor
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CHALLENGES
“LOOK OUT”
SIMILAR
ALTERNATIVE
RIVAL
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A few people sensed something wrong with the comparison
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WTF?
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So how similar/different are they?
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Ok, both are green boards with electronic-y stuff on them
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That’s about where the similarities end
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Size
56 x 85 mm 102 x 152 mm
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The Sharks Cove is
3.2 times bigger
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Processor
1 core 700 MHz 4 core 1.33 GHz
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The Cove is almost
2xfaster
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RAM
512 MB SDRAM 1GB DDR3
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The Cove has
TWICEas much memory
(and it’s faster)
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GPIO
17 GPIO pins*SPI and I2C
UART
? GPIO pinsSPI and I2C
UART
* The Model B+ has 26
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We could go through all ofthe hardware differences
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But what are the REAL reasons these two aren’t competing?
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First of all, because Microsoft said so...
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“Sharks Cove is a development board that you
can use to develop hardware and drivers for
Windows and Android.”
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“The primary target usage of the Sharks Cove
board is for development of subsystems for
Intel® Atom™ processors based Tablets and
Mobile devices”
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Drivers, Tablets and Mobile, OH MY!
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Let’s compare that to the Raspberry Pi
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“We want to see it being used by KIDS all over
the world to learn how computers work, how to manipulate the electronic world around
them, and how to program.”
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The Raspberry Pi has a different purpose. And therefore a different market.
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And it’s plain as day to see
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Oh, and let’s not forget the price
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$35 vs $300
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One is an expensive platform development tool
meant for designingWindows and Android-based devices
with a non-existent community
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The other is an affordable learning platform with a thriving worldwide
community aimed at teaching kids programming and electronics.
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So can we please stop pretending that this is some sort of
development board matchup
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Because it isn’t