Gooseberry is an interesting alternative to the Raspberry Pi

After the success of the Raspberry Pi, some manufacturers began to create similar projects that differ from the Raspberry Pi in one way or another. On Habré already published the news that the company VIA has created its own model of mini-PC. Well, and now individuals have taken up the implementation of such projects.

A new project, Gooseberry , was created by a man who had been waiting for the opportunity to buy a Raspberry Pi, or for the delivery of this device. In the end, Comrade decided to find an alternative that can be used as a mini-PC. The solution was found - a friend discovered that many of the tablets sold in the UK were based on the Allwinner A10 chip, and he was able to establish contact with the motherboard manufacturer for such tablets.
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These boards are several times more productive than the Raspberry Pi, and they will be sold at a price of $ 63. The configuration is quite interesting - a gigahertz Allwinner processor, 400MHz Mali GPU, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal memory available to the user.



This configuration allows the board to easily handle HD video. The boards will be sold with pre-installed Android Gingerbread.