[howolduis]

why would you buy this when you can get a very comparable rpi4 for 10% the price

[jdub]

The Raspberry Pi 4 is barely a real computer, and hardly comparable. The Honeycomb has faster interconnect with practically everything on the board, so can handle a video card, serious networking and storage performance, etc.

[ekianjo]

A Raspberry Pi is not even going to even touch this in terms of performance. You do realize that a Pi is underpowered in every meaning of the word?

[joezydeco]

But...but... the Pi is only $10.

[rbanffy]

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use, two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" – Seymour Cray

[wmf]

But there are no oxen in this comparison. The RPi is 4 chickens and the Honeycomb is 16 chickens.

[rbanffy]

The $10 Pi is not the same kind of bird as the Honeycomb and the RPi 4 lacks the expandable memory, storage and pretty much everything else.

It has a GPU, at least, which can be handy.

[joezydeco]

At this point I consider it job security that Rpi users can't look beyond their $10 kit boards.

[rodgerd]

Could you point me to the 10 Gb ports on the Pi 4?

[ekianjo]

The Pi4 can hardly handle 1Gb speeds in the first place.

[IntelMiner]

To be fair, the Pi can handle 4Gbps of ethernet traffic successfully as Jeff Geerling demonstrated

[linux4kix]

The LX2160a can handle up to 130Gbps of network traffic. That is what it is designed for. You also have the benefit that the Quad SFP+ ports can be configured as a network switch completely offloaded from the CPU. That is what this SOC was designed for after all. :)

[wmf]

The Honeycomb is older than RPi 4 so it made some sense at the time. It should still be faster for builds because of the 16 cores and the Honeycomb has far more I/O for people who need that.