Banana Pro Review
A Closer Look
Here is a closer look at the top of the Banana Pro:
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Note how the top of the board mostly has connectors and passive components on it.
And here is a closer look at the bottom of the board:
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In the middle we have two chips providing 1GB of DDR3 memory, the A20 chip, WiFi module and power management chip.
Now let’s take a tour around the Banana Pro, looking at each side.
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From left to right: Audio/video jack, microphone, and 40 pin GPIO header.
Here you can see the original Banana Pi stacked on top of the Banana Pro.
Note the larger GPIO header. I wish they did not move the relative position of the GPIO header!
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On this side we have: power button, reset button, and micro USB OTG jacks on top.
On the bottom we have the WiFi antenna socket and the uSD socket.
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On the side opposite to the GPIO’s we have a SATA power connector, micro SD power jack, SATA connector and HDMI connector.
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Finally we have the Gigabit Ethernet jack, dual USB host ports, and an IR receiver.
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Review Index
Page 1: Introduction, Does it look the same?
Page 2: Closer Look at the Banana Pro
Page 3: Feature Comparison, Operating Systems
Page 4: Software Compatibility
Page 5: WiringPi, RPi.GPIO, Hardware Compatibility
Page 6: More hardware compatibility, WiFi Configuration
Page 7: Documentation, Benchmarks
Page 8: Power Utilization, Support, Conclusion
