raspberry pi 3 or banana pi m3

[Spekham2013]

Hello everyone

This might be a odd question but what do you guys think i should do.
Buy a raspberry pi 3 for €40 or
Buy a banana pi m3 with double the specs for €80

thanks in advance

[texy]

Double?
I assume you've asked the same questions at the banana pi forum - assuming there is one.
The answers you'll get here may be a little biased

Texy

[Spekham2013]

Double?
I assume you've asked the same questions at the banana pi forum - assuming there is one.
The answers you'll get here may be a little biased

Texy

I did not ask on banana pi forum because there is nearly no one there. The banana pi m3 has 2gb ram and octacore processer.

[mthomason]

Difficult to make a recommendation without knowing what you want to use it for, and how badly you could use the money saved elsewhere.

Personally, I'd probably go with whatever is sufficient to do the job you want it for with enough elbow room for a year or so's expansion. If you're looking for a do-everything home server, or to use as an actual workstation, then it's probably best to go with the biggest thing you can afford. If you're looking for something to turn on for a couple of hours a week to tinker with, buy the cheapest (especially if you're planning on poking with GPIOs - best to have something you're not going to feel too bad about accidently trashing). If you're looking to learn, well, you already saw how active the forums here are vs the alternative, so that pretty much tells you which brand you'll get the best user-to-user support with

[Spekham2013]

Difficult to make a recommendation without knowing what you want to use it for, and how badly you could use the money saved elsewhere.

Personally, I'd probably go with whatever is sufficient to do the job you want it for with enough elbow room for a year or so's expansion. If you're looking for a do-everything home server, or to use as an actual workstation, then it's probably best to go with the biggest thing you can afford. If you're looking for something to turn on for a couple of hours a week to tinker with, buy the cheapest (especially if you're planning on poking with GPIOs - best to have something you're not going to feel too bad about accidently trashing). If you're looking to learn, well, you already saw how active the forums here are vs the alternative, so that pretty much tells you which brand you'll get the best user-to-user support with

I plan on mostly using it as a home server. I might also do a little bit of tinkering with GPIOs but not that much. I also want to code on it (nothing heavy).

[mthomason]

I plan on mostly using it as a home server. I might also do a little bit of tinkering with GPIOs but not that much. I also want to code on it (nothing heavy).

I'd probably use the money to buy a pair of Raspberry Pi 3s, that way you have one stable, running as the server, and the other to mess around with GPIOs and coding on. Nothing worse than thinking "I'd love to do X, but... I need to keep the server running because it's running my website / hosting my mail domain / streaming a movie to my sibling right now"

[Spekham2013]

I plan on mostly using it as a home server. I might also do a little bit of tinkering with GPIOs but not that much. I also want to code on it (nothing heavy).

I'd probably use the money to buy a pair of Raspberry Pi 3s, that way you have one stable, running as the server, and the other to mess around with GPIOs and coding on. Nothing worse than thinking "I'd love to do X, but... I need to keep the server running because it's running my website / hosting my mail domain / streaming a movie to my sibling right now"

good point i'll think about it

[Heater]

Spekham2013,

...what do you guys think i should do. Buy a raspberry pi 3 for €40 or Buy a banana pi m3 with double the specs for €80

I think you should buy both. Try to use them. Report your experiences back here.

Beware of spec. sheets.

[hal8000]

For the same money you could buy a Raspberry Pi 3 and Banana Pi M2.
The M2 is still a quad core but the biggest difference is the onboard
SATA port and separate network chip. There is no throughput bottleneck
like on the Pi. The most active Banana Pi forum is below:
http://forum.lemaker.org/forum.php?mod= ... ay&fid=160

However its not all about the hardware. The Banana Pi forum is a fraction of
the size of the Pi's forum and hardware graphics acceleration on the Banana
Pi only works if you use an Android image.

You will probably need some basic linux experience if you buy a Banana Pi and
you may also find that any questions may not get answered or if they do, you
might be waiting several days.
There have been some good comparisons on YouTube, between Raspberry Bi,
Banana Pi and Orange Pi.
If youre comfortable at installing software from source and at the shell, then maybe
you should try a Banana Pi, but if you need more support then Raspbberry Pi may be
better. Only you can decide ,

[jdb]

Moved to OT

[Dis93]

Raspberry Pi

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05 ... i-devices/

[gkreidl]

Raspberry Pi

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05 ... i-devices/

Maybe Allwinner is just a department of the Chinese secret service:-)

[Dis93]

I hope you and your Pi have tinfoil hats..with propellors on 'em.
Might mess up the wifi tho....

[KRYPTOCHRIS]

And is this backdoor closed now ? after 2 years

[blaablaaguy]

Double?
I assume you've asked the same questions at the banana pi forum - assuming there is one.
The answers you'll get here may be a little biased

Texy

I did not ask on banana pi forum because there is nearly no one there. The banana pi m3 has 2gb ram and octacore processer.

Thats what youll lose if you get a bananapi. Support from the community