Excellent. The more competitors to the Pi the better. I've been nothing but disappointed by mine - it's slow, convoluted and totally unreliable. I do expect the opposite for the money when you can get a generic android tablet for not much more.
i can't see the competitors being less convoluted than a debian install. if your hardware is unreliable you should make a repro to make it fail(i ran a performance benchmark in a loop on one i had trouble with til it crashed) and send it back to the manufacturer.
the rpi's popularity, and low power consumption are it's selling points.
i wonder what utility an android tablet provides than an rpi could be expected to.
I posted instructions on how to make it fail on the RPi forum. My thread was deleted.
The boot and video detection process is a total mess as well. Daring to suggest that is the case is frowned upon apparently as well as I was basically flamed for wanting to use composite video over HDMI. Bear in mind I didn't have an HDMI capable unit around and the thing is marketed as composite capable.
Also I was getting USB brownouts with a powered hub connected. My thread was deleted.
I've worked with embedded systems for a number of years and the RPi was a really low point in head bashing on wall. It's an awful platform.
Its in the bin where it belongs.
Post the instructions here, I will test on mine to see whether it's a general problem or just your box - there have been faulty ones shipped, but it's a tiny percentage of the total.
Having threads deleted seems to be a common theme on popular forums, it doesn't usually signal a cover up - the moderators can take exception to your tone and then you have no recourse.
When my rpi posts it seems to look for a hdmi cable, if none is present it outputs to the yellow composite - how does yours differ?
I can't understand if you mean brownouts in terms of power or in terms of connectivity - what was dropping out?
I can't say I have any experience with embedded systems but typically when people say that they aren't referring to computers that the rpi is comparable to - e.g. hdmi out, usb, ethernet. What were you doing with the embedded systems that you couldn't do with a pi?