Raspberry Pi ⚔ Banana Pi
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Which is the best?
Raspberry Pi is a series of small single board computers, with low cost that can plug into a computer monitor or TV and uses a standard keyboard and mouse.
Banana pi which is a competitor of Raspberry Pi is a new single-board computer that is powered by a much faster processor and RAM. Hardware design of Banana Pi is highly influenced by Raspberry Pi. Thus, Banana Pi is compatible with Raspberry Pi boards. It can also run on various operating systems like Raspbian, NetBSD, Android, Debian etc. It uses Allwinner SoC (System on a chip) and covered by Linux-sunxi port.
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| Raspberry VS Banana |
Raspberry Pi depends on MicroSD and USB for storage whereas Banana pi is fitted with a SATA port, which allows a faster option for connecting mass storage devices like hard drives. ...
Raspberry Pi 3 comes with a quad-core processor with 1 GB RAM whereas Banana pi M3 has an octa-core processor with 2GB RAM.
Raspberry Pi is a capable little device that would enable people from all walks of life to explore computer science and to learn how to program in languages like Python. It is supposed to do everything you would expect from a desktop computer to do, ranging from browsing the internet and playing definition video, making spreadsheets, word processing, and playing games.
Banana Pi is affordable with extensible configurations. Its high performance is driven by Allwinner SoC and 1 GB DDR3 SDRAM. It is highly versatile and compatible with Raspberry pi image. It is for everyone who wants to play and create with computer technologies, instead of simply being a user of electronics.
Raspberry Pi has a small size and accessible price; thus, it was quickly adopted by computer enthusiasts for a project which requires more than a basic microcontroller.
Banana pi provides an open source hardware platform which was produced to run Elastos.org open source operating system. It is dual core, Android 4.2 product which is better than Raspberry Pi. It is highly efficient with several Linux distributions in the market like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuse and images that run on Raspberry Pi and Cubieboard. It consists of a Gigabit Ethernet port and a SATA socket.
The size of Banana pi M1 is about the same size as a credit card. It has a potential to run the games smoothly as it supports 1080P high definition video output. The GPIO is compatible with Raspberry Pi and it can run Raspberry pi images directly.
Now just choose yours pi....