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Jaguar Board is an x86 based Single Board Computer

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If you want a single board computer, at the moment you would be looking at something like a Raspberry Pi or its many competitors. Problem with these is they are all ARM based, but now JaguarBoard is changing the trend by ditching arm for x86.

The market is getting stagnant with ARM based Single Board Computers, which are great at their task, but can be limited by the architecture itself. Now ARM, no matter how great it is as a processor, its aimed mainly at Phones and Tablets.

Software for ARM is not as abundant or tested as it is for x86, resulting in limited options.

This is where JaguarBoard comes in JaguarBoard is the first I have seen to be using an Intel Atom as the CPU, which opens it up to the vast library of X86 software, and makes it more suitable to be used as a traditional or small form factor PC.

The JaguarBoard is currently on kickstarter and has already smashed its funding goal of $3000 in a short period of time and has hit over $23000.

"Early bird Kickstarter pledges as low as $45 got a board, which may be indicative of the final price point. Right now, however, $65 contributions on Kickstarter is the cheapest way to lock down a board for yourself. For that you’ll get the board, a USB hub, and a 16 GB memory card."

“This JaguarBoard is developed on X86 architecture, and we aim to support a wide variety of OSs,” Jaguar Electronic HK states on the Kickstarter page. “We have tested its compatibility with Microsoft Windows and many Linux systems and software applications to ensure it works. So far so very good!”

You can view more on the kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/263025908/jaguarboard-x...

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Comments (6)

dotmatrix ·
It's priced about right. It looks like it has on-board persistent memory for loading an OS, which may make it run a lot faster than the Raspberry Pi. And it's not ARM based, so programming should be nice and easy.

I think I'm going to have get this new toy for my collection... errr... I mean... experimental general computing platform with GPIO.
penguinist ·
I looked at that too when it first came out and almost bought one. The killer for me, though, is that it doesn't support 4K video on its hdmi port. I'm patiently waiting for a raspberry pi (or lookalike) that will allow me to upgrade my media center to 2160p. Still looking, still waiting...
gus3 ·
Um, programming the ARM is just as easy as programming the x86. A general C program that works on one, works on the other. Same goes for MIPS, SPARC, Z-8000, 68000, OpenRISC....

What one of them can calculate, they can all calculate, because they are all Turing-equivalent.

(If that isn't weird enough for you, consider this: not only are the languages Lisp and Forth also equivalent, it turns out they are trivially equivalent. A common undergrad programming assignment is to write translators between Lisp and Forth. *boggle*)
mbaehrlxer ·
it's more like that lisp and forth both have such a minimalistic syntax that you can easily write an interpreter for each in any language.

but yes, most languages are very similar to each other, it's all about functions, datastructures, operators (or not), and the rest is just syntax.

greetings, eMBee.
BernardSwiss ·
I smell a potentially interesting article in this thread (one that would be of great interest to a dilettante such as myself, -- and presumably to more competent readers, as well).

gus3 ·
It's already been written.

Be warned, it's a long and sometimes dense read.

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