Up core

[Brian Beuken]

The Up Core is the Up Squared's much smaller little brother,  but with an Intel® Atom™ x5-Z8350 Processor (2M Cache, up to 1.92 GHz) CPU with 64 bit architecture; Quad Core CPU. making it actually packing a lot more power.

It has a much smaller form factor than the Squared though, so you'l need an extension system as you only get one usb and 1 hdmi. There's lots of mini connectors for screens and things if you want to make a tablet or something. But to hook up to a network, either go wireless or use a usb with a network adapter.

That Atom CPU comes with integrated Intel graphics and should be able to outperform even the Squared....I say should because as hard as I tried I just couldn't get this board to function properly. Its software is no where near ready and I hit brick wall after brick wall trying to get it to boot up. Then when I did, it refused to compile anything... I'll come back to it soon, but for now, its a pretty neat board, the worlds smallest intel board, and has a lot of promise..but it stays in the drawer of shame till there's an update.

[Brian Beuken]

ok so coming back to this again, I'm in the process of doing a full update... Sadly my internet in my office is below par (which I kinda am ok with, it stops me browsing too much) so I'll leave it for a few hours to do its full update, then also do a bios update and see where we get.

There is also now a version of ubuntu for it which might be more stable than the ubilinux I installed at 1st which was all there was then.. I'll see how it performs after an update and get back to you.

[Brian Beuken]

Upgrades did nothing, its still hitting lots of roadblocks, I'll try Ubuntu and see if it has more luck

[jomoengineer]

The Up boards looked interesting but seemed like an alternative when Intel dropped the Edison (Atom Processor) and Galileo. Those boards were never really fully cooked so I was surprised Intel was giving it another go with Up. I guess the Up Core is a bit of a downer.

[Brian Beuken]

its proving to be a bit of a turkey....can't get much out of it at all yet...will burn ubuntu to it and see what happens, but I'm not holding out hope.

The Up2 is however a beast of a machine even at the base level Celeron dual core, far faster than anything ARM, but also a lot more expensive.

[Brian Beuken]

Ubuntu refused to install, total waste of effort... probably too late to send it back, I've had it in the draw for a while.

Oh well....Anyone wanna buy an Upcore SBC...dubious working ability?

[Brian Beuken]

I've sent it back to Aaeon for a replacement...we'll see.

[Brian Beuken]

Up/Aaeon have confirmed a fault on my returned board, so hopefully a replacement will be with me soon and I can finally put this puppy through its paces. I'm excited again.

[Brian Beuken]

New board on the way...fingers crossed we can finally get thise little powerhouse of a board to show its stuff.

[Brian Beuken]

Getting silly now.

got a new board today, no OS on it, and of course no matter what I do it does not install an OS.. giving a kernel panic unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

and it has a QC pass sticker on it...phhttt

Trying hard not to get stroppy on their support site...but really if you are going to admit a fault and replace a board, would it be too hard to check the new one before sending it???