sigh 31.20euros tax and duty....grrr
Bummer on the tax and duty,
In the USE, there is a ameriDroid site which I believe is easier to purchase from in the US.
The C4 has the Mali-G31 which supports but OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan. That is very interesting to me.
I'll have to put this on the list of boards to get.
If I get it from anywhere outside Europe, I'll get stung with duty. But hey ho...
Yes theres a lot more boards for sure with OpenGLES3.2...I think its time to write a few extra chapters and some proper code to test them out.
I'll let you know how it performs when it arrives, I think it might need a few months of settling in before its really ready to shine, but if it matches and XU4 for power I will be both amazed and impressed.
Sahhhweeet my C4 arrived today, much faster than I was expecting, and faster it seems than Hardkernel were expecting too, there's no official OS available yet, none of the download links work;. There's a user version available but it needs a lot of time and effort to get it set up....I hate time and effort... oh well it can go in the drawer of shame for a few weeks, bugger..
the user version is here..
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=38557
According to the post on the forums it may not boot from SD and since I don't have an eMMC on it I am not sure its worth the effort but theres a neat video that does explain what might happen, at least as a 1st test system, only for Wayland at the moment but I do want to test out some wayland rendering so...might give it a go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfHMKcHaUc&t=864s
edit yup, SD boot didn't work
trying an armbian version..
damn, it did boot, and took forever to resize and then update/upgrade, at which point it no longer boots.....no blue pulse
sigh
I tried Armbian one more time, not updating, and installing glmark2, it worked, but software only, however it actually produced quite good scores, suggesting a very fast CPU... as soon as GPU is usable this will be beastie.
But for now, like the N2 it has to go in the drawer of shame and await software that gets the most out of it.
ordered a emmc and case which I probably should have ordered at the time, we'll see....
Oh cool. I got word mine shipped yesterday but I only ordered the C4.
Sounds like I'll be ordering more stuff for the ODROID.
it has an odd 12v power unit as well, so you might need to get that, I generally always get the power units with odroids, you can't be sure they use standard systems.
The Power requirements state it has a DC input range of 5.5v - 15v. However, they do suggest the 12v 2A power adapter.
On thing though, it has an idle power consumption of 1.8W and a CPU stress limit at around 3.8W. I'm thinking the 2A power adapter rating might be too low for some instances. Something in the range of 4A might be best.
This is listed on the ODROID-C4 page:
1 x DC jack : outer (negative) diameter 5.5mm, inner (positive) diameter 2.1mm
DC input : 5.5V ~ 15.5V
– DC 12V/2A power adaptor is recommended
Power consumption:
– IDLE : ≃ 1.8W
– CPU Stress : ≃ 3.64W (Performance governor)
– Power-off : ≃ 0.14W
If you can find a power wart with 4A go for it, you can never go wrong with too many amps.
but the 12v2amp they supplied did the job fine, I just need to get an OS that runs after an update on it