2013-08-30, 00:19
Hi heemid
If the price is a major factor and if you mainly care about the HDMI interface and if you are able to mod the GK802 to solve the big overheating issue, then you are perfectly right : Go for this device. At 70$ you can have a fully working iMX6Q + USB Ethernet (100mbps) shipped to the US and you will not have another iMX6Q device at this price (beside you have a usdcard and a power supply for this price !)
Clearly wandboard or utilite or udoo cannot compete with the GK802 price.
Yet, it is a little unfair as the products are different : For instance, if we have a look at wandboard : First you have additional chipsets (A real gbps Ethernet device, additional analog sound, spdif), you also have more memory and you also have headers on which you can plug additional boards. You also have Host and OTG USB interfaces which can be used at the same time (contrary to the gk802). Not to mention a real efficient heatsink "out of the box" which is the least a customer should expect...
The same for utilite, of course if you compare 219$ to the gk802 price then you conclude that utilite is really expensive but when you have a closer look at the box and the features then you understand why the prices are not the same.
So you pay more for other products which are not really overpriced...
As a general conclusion :
the GK802 is definitively very very good regarding its price (But to my mind it is not acceptable to sell a product with such an overheating issue)
If you want gpbs ethernet or spdif or a serial link without opening the device or you don't want to mod your device by yourself then you should have a look at other products...
If the price is a major factor and if you mainly care about the HDMI interface and if you are able to mod the GK802 to solve the big overheating issue, then you are perfectly right : Go for this device. At 70$ you can have a fully working iMX6Q + USB Ethernet (100mbps) shipped to the US and you will not have another iMX6Q device at this price (beside you have a usdcard and a power supply for this price !)
Clearly wandboard or utilite or udoo cannot compete with the GK802 price.
Yet, it is a little unfair as the products are different : For instance, if we have a look at wandboard : First you have additional chipsets (A real gbps Ethernet device, additional analog sound, spdif), you also have more memory and you also have headers on which you can plug additional boards. You also have Host and OTG USB interfaces which can be used at the same time (contrary to the gk802). Not to mention a real efficient heatsink "out of the box" which is the least a customer should expect...
The same for utilite, of course if you compare 219$ to the gk802 price then you conclude that utilite is really expensive but when you have a closer look at the box and the features then you understand why the prices are not the same.
So you pay more for other products which are not really overpriced...
As a general conclusion :
the GK802 is definitively very very good regarding its price (But to my mind it is not acceptable to sell a product with such an overheating issue)
If you want gpbs ethernet or spdif or a serial link without opening the device or you don't want to mod your device by yourself then you should have a look at other products...