Habey MITX-6771: Mini-ITX Board With Quad-Core J1900 Bay Trail

An American Megatrends UEFI/BIOS is used by the MITX-6771 with all of the basic features one would expect. There's also preset settings if wishing to install Android on this board.

As said in the introduction, I've been using the Habey MITX-6771 for a while now and I'm quite happy with it. I've tested the board under Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS and it's worked well with no Linux compatibility issues. Though with being a Bay Trail board, the newer the Linux kernel and Mesa version, the better the graphics performance and support will be. Any modern distribution though should work just fine with the Intel Celeron J1900.

The MITX-6771 is advertised as being great for digital signage, POS/self-service terminals, industrial automation, transportation, and medical technologies. Of course, it could also make a great low-power Linux desktop or even an HTPC system when using the latest Intel Linux graphics driver code with VA-API for video acceleration. The fanless, mini-ITX design is great and the Celeron J1900 is more powerful than many other boards in this class that are dual-core or just not as fast.

For putting some perspective on the MITX-6771 performance with J1900, I ran some benchmarks against the AAEON EMB-BT1. The EMB-BT1 is powered by an Intel Atom E3825 SoC that is dual-core and runs at 1.33GHz with a maximum memory capacity of 4GB. The E3825 Intel HD Graphics also run slower with a frequency of just 533MHz.

Both the AAEON EMB-BT1 and Habey MITX-6771 were running Ubuntu 14.10 with the Linux 3.16 kernel and Mesa 10.3 and GCC 4.9.1. All of the Linux benchmarks were carried out using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite software.