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Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Re: Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Post by airbreather »

Odroid at hardkernal, I like the XU4 that at $53 will run full Linux distros and has A15 and A7 CPUs at 2 GHz, 2GB DDR3, Mali T-628 GPU, USB 3.0 and Gb Ethernet.

Hard to believe you get all that for $53, you wouldn't have to go back that many years to be in a place where you would have been happy to pay $2k for something like that.

While there check out their odroid go for 80 bucks, it's a ready to go gaming platform similar to Nintendo switch.

I have no affiliation with Odroid whatsoever, I just like their products.

Re: Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Post by 0des »

airbreather wrote: post #2

Odroid at hardkernal, I like the XU4 that at $53 will run full Linux distros and has A15 and A7 CPUs at 2 GHz, 2GB DDR3, Mali T-628 GPU, USB 3.0 and Gb Ethernet. Hard to believe you get all that for $53, you wouldn't have to go back that many years to be in a place where you would have been happy to pay $2k for something like that. While there check out their odroid go for 80 bucks, it's a ready to go gaming platform…

Thanks, I'll pick one up. Hopefully that have a pi-zero competitive model as well. I'm hoping to prototype something that I want to fit in a pocket

Re: Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Post by airbreather »

0des wrote: post #3
airbreather wrote: post #2

Odroid at hardkernal, I like the XU4 that at $53 will run full Linux distros and has A15 and A7 CPUs at 2 GHz, 2GB DDR3, Mali T-628 GPU, USB 3.0 and Gb Ethernet. Hard to believe you get all that for $53, you wouldn't have to go back that many years to be in a place where you would have been happy to pay $2k for something like that. While there check out their odroid go for 80 bucks, it's a ready to go gaming platform…

Thanks, I'll pick one up. Hopefully that have a pi-zero competitive model as well. I'm hoping to prototype something that I want to fit in a pocket

Unfortunately, nothing like the zero I am aware of.

Re: Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Post by dpeck »

airbreather wrote: post #2

Odroid at hardkernal, I like the XU4 that at $53 will run full Linux distros and has A15 and A7 CPUs at 2 GHz, 2GB DDR3, Mali T-628 GPU, USB 3.0 and Gb Ethernet. Hard to believe you get all that for $53, you wouldn't have to go back that many years to be in a place where you would have been happy to pay $2k for something like that. While there check out their odroid go for 80 bucks, it's a ready to go gaming platform…

These look really neat. Can you expand on what you mean by full linux distro? Can it out of the box run something like Debian/Ubuntu/Arch or is it vendor specific distribution?

Re: Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Post by nicolaslem »

I had the same question a couple of months ago and got recommended the Orange Pi line of devices. For my usage it is virtually identical to a similar specd Rasberry Pi. Most of the models can run Armbian[0] which provides some peace of mind regarding long term support. The brand seems to sell mostly on Aliexpress, which is where I got mine from.

[0] https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported

Re: Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?

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Post by 0des »

airbreather wrote: post #4
0des wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I'll pick one up. Hopefully that have a pi-zero competitive model as well. I'm hoping to prototype something that I want to fit in a pocket

Unfortunately, nothing like the zero I am aware of.

Thanks for the response. I'm not getting my hopes up but I am optimistic that surely someone has tried to enter this niche form factor solely given to how well it sells for the pi folks.
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