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A comment on $89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB. Parent comment

Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by brigade on Thursday December 27, 2012 @10:48PM (#4976338)
The 10 watt power supply is so that the USB ports can have full power. The board alone probably doesn't use much more than 6 watts or so at maximum load (the similar ODROID-X draws about 7 watts maximum on the AC side of the power adapter)
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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by hyperbovine on Thursday December 27, 2012 @11:02PM (#4976376)
Being able to power the RPi off USB is, unexpectedly, one of my favorite features. Wall warts just plain suck. You won't be able run 6w off USB 3.0 for a while yet.
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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by ersii on Monday December 31, 2012 @07:13AM (#4989118)
It's unfortunate to not be able to power other things off of the Raspberry Pi's USB though. Like a WiFi USB dongle.

But we knew we were in for the ride when we bought rPi's.

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