# banana pi BPI-M1

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BPI-M1 is an Open Source hardware platform. Banana PI BPI-M1 a dual core, which is much better than the Raspberry Pi.

The Banana Pi BPI-M1 hardware runs Android, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, OpenSuse linux and images that run on the Raspberry Pi B and Cubieboard.

Banana PI BPI-M1 has a Gigabit Ethernet port and a SATA Socket. It can run with Android 4.2.2 smoothly. The size of Banana PI M1 is about the same size as a credit card,

It can easily run games as it supports 1080P high definition video output. The GPIO is compatible with Raspberry Pi and can run Raspberry Pi images directly.

forum: [http://www.banana-pi.org ](https://github.com/bananapi/bpi-m1/tree/9b51b70d106c536353e7bde2f9eea2220c29ab70/en/http/www.banana-pi.org)

forum: <http://www.bananapi.com>

product: <http://www.banana-pi.com>

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