LeMaker Guitar Review

Operating Systems

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  • Ubuntu Mate (Ubuntu without Unity)
  • Lemuntu (LeMaker’s Ubuntu with LXDE)
  • LeMedia (LeMaker’s port of Kodi)
  • Android v3.1

Multimedia

While the Guitar presents a 1080p (1920×1080@60Hz) signal on its HDMI connector, the desktop runs at 1024×600, which is upscaled to 1080p.

Kodi

I will update this section of the review as soon as I have a proper 1080p display, as there is no point in trying to and test how well Kodi plays back 1080p video while it is really only rendering to 1024×600.

Software Compatibility

 

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For all tests and benchmarks I used the version of Lemuntu that came installed on the Guitar SOM’s, however I did update them with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

The Guitar felt snappy for desktop operations, however the lack of decorations and chosen theme makes the windows on the desktop (IMHO) look ugly.

I am afraid the web browser is slow and ugly. I was not surprised when it was unable to play YouTube videos. I’ll revisit YouTube once I get Chromium running on the Guitar.

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Here is the ‘About’ window of the web browser:

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For now, I suggest you

sudo apt-get install iceweasel

to get a better web browser.

Unfortunately the file browser does not recognize smb shares – not even after I installed smb.

Article Index

  1. Introduction
  2. A Closer Look at LeMaker Guitar & Base Board
  3. Feature Comparison
  4. Operating Systems, Software Compatibility
  5. Common Applications, WiFi, Bluetooth
  6. Hardware Compatibility
  7. More on Hardware Compatibility
  8. Benchmarks: Booting&Apps, Compiling Emacs, Sysbench
  9. Benchmarks: iperf client & server, NBench, UnixBench
  10. Benchmarks: hdparm, dd, Documentation, Support, Conclusion

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