Banana Pi is a single-board computer made in China. It can run Android, Ubuntu and Debian. Raspbian can be run, though the CPU complies with the requirements of the Debian
armhf
port.[1] It uses the Allwinner A20 SoC and as such is mostly covered by the linux-sunxi port.Banana Pi has no direct relationship to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, though its similarities are clear.[2] "Linux user & Developer" does not consider it a "direct clone, but a considerable evolution," whilst linux.com similarly sees it as a clone with improved performance.[3][4] The board layout is very similar to the Raspberry PI board, though it's about 10% larger and the relative spacing of some connectors varies. Not all Raspberry Pi accessories will fit as a result. (Ref: Wiki, Lemaker.org)
Banana Pi is much faster than Raspberry PI. However, Raspberry PI has a very large user group, many interesting projects can be found based on Raspberry PI (Raspberry PI community).
Buying Raspberry PI
http://hkstem.clubBuying Banana PI
I bought Banana PI in taobao.Banana PI (RMB$245)
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The complete buying guide for taobao can found below:
http://sea.taobao.com/howtobuy
https://www.techinasia.com/tmall-taobao-english-how-to-guide/