{"id":8922,"date":"2012-12-27T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2012-12-27T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:17:51","slug":"mk802-ii-mini-pc-now-costs-as-much-as-raspberry-pi-model-b-lets-compare-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8922","title":{"rendered":"MK802 II Mini PC Now Costs as Much as Raspberry Pi Model B. Let\u2019s Compare Them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you just look at the hardware specs, there\u2019s no comparison, and MK802 II provides much better value than the Raspberry Pi with a much faster CPU, more RAM, internal storage and more. Only the GPU processing power may be subject to debate, but I don\u2019t really have data to make a proper comparison. So if you just want to run the device as a media player for example, I\u2019d just go with MK802 II since you\u2019ll get a smoother experience and more video codecs are supported. The only caveat is that you\u2019ll have to use Android (and see the status bar during video playback), as although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnx-software.com\/2012\/11\/12\/xbmc-for-linux-on-allwinner-a10-devices-it-works-sort-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux video support<\/a> is available, it\u2019s not ready for prime time, and never will.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnx-software.com\/2012\/12\/26\/mk802-ii-mini-pc-now-costs-as-much-as-raspberry-pi-model-b-lets-compare-them\/\">MK802 II Mini PC Now Costs as Much as Raspberry Pi Model B. Let\u2019s Compare Them!<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you just look at the hardware specs, there\u2019s no comparison, and MK802 II provides much better value than the Raspberry Pi with a much faster CPU, more RAM, internal storage and more. Only the GPU processing power may be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8922\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[126,400],"class_list":["post-8922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpe","tag-hardware","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}