discussion Raspberry VS ASUS tinker board

[Norwegianuser]

The release for Asus Tinker board is soon! and what do you guys think! is it worth going away from raspberry to ASUS? or stay at raspberry? 

[ChackoM]

Raspberry for sure. There's such a large community for it with a bunch of software and projects that people have put out for it. 

[GrayFox1991]

8 minutes ago, ChackoM said:

Raspberry for sure. There's such a large community for it with a bunch of software and projects that people have put out for it. 

This basically sums it up. Either you are smart enough to manage/dev your distros and get use of some of the more powerful hardware in the Asus. Or you have some project where you want most of the legwork to already be done, and you get a Pi

[TheRealOranges]

Yeah, if you don't mind the hassle and need like 4K output, go to the tinker board, but you may really need to tinker with it if you face problems. On the other hand, if you are just starting out with linux and such, stick with the Pi 

[Mooshi]

Raw power or huge community, that is the decision maker tbh

[SCHISCHKA]

There are plenty of reviews on YouTube that put me off the Asus.

[JetSpotter]

Raspberry for me.

[Aelita Sophie]

Raspberry hands down. (in my country) The price difference is about €20-25. Raspberry Pi 3 goes for about €40 and the Asus Tinkerboard about €65. The raspberry pi has a vast community support. Also it's more widely used, thus software support seems to be a lot bigger. (Also examples and tutorials for projects are easily to find) Where the Asus Tinkerboard (Granted it's "fairly new" in the business) has definitely a smaller community. The projects done with it so far are a lot slimmer then the Raspberry's. But the Tinkerboard has a lot more performance. You get 2GB of DDR3 instead of 1GB and a quite more powerfull GPU, so for 4k video streaming, the asus would excel. It has a Gb LAN vs the 100mbit Lan of the Raspberry. And a 1.8 Ghz Quad core versus the 1.2 Ghz Quad core of the Raspberry. For connect-ability it's roughly the same though. So both should be able to do more or less the same stuff. 

So the Asus board is rougly 50% faster, and does have nice perks, but is that worth the €25 increase in price? And do you find the community support etc important?

If your answers are no and yes, then go for a Raspberry

Otherwise go for a tinkerboard. But in my opinion, a Raspberry is more worth it's price.