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I was curious to figure out what the beefiest single board computer under $30 is (AKA C$40). The first real standout is the Radxa Cubie A7Z. The model with 1 GB DDR4 meets that. Features an Allwinner A733 SOC: 8 CPU cores, PCIe 3.0, WiFi6+BT5.4, RISC-V coprocessor. 🤯 Also available with 2/4/8 GB.

James Brown

@ancient.bsky.social

23 Feb

I was just looking at this myself - particularly interested in DP Alt Mode, which is uncommon on an SBC.

Mike Sux 🍁

@distraction.engineer

Nice! I ran out of characters to mention it had a Vulkan capable Imagination (PowerVR) GPU, which made me smile. 😋 My concern is software support. I did find an entry for the A770 on the SunXi wiki (and a datasheet), but no mention of 6.x Linux Kernel support (just 5.x). 🤷

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James Brown

@ancient.bsky.social

23 Feb

My last foray into non-Raspberry SBCs, the software support consisted of a forum where people would be told to stop asking stupid questions by a guy named Igor.

Mike Sux 🍁

@distraction.engineer

24 Feb

Hahaha, I see you've been on the Armbian forum. 🤣

jamie kerber 🍂💜🎃

@kerberjg.bsky.social

23 Feb

That’s a common issue with Radxa 😔 We were exploring some of their hardware at work, but getting stuff to run took so much we decided it’s not worth the hassle. Which is a bummer! The hardware is awesome

Mike Sux 🍁

@distraction.engineer

24 Feb

If I could afford to spend time porting their patches to mainline, I would. Alas.

jamie kerber 🍂💜🎃

@kerberjg.bsky.social

24 Feb

Honestly, they should be the ones doing that But apparently they did their math and realized that it makes more sense to focus on hobbyists and provide minimum viable support where people can figure out the rest on their own time <\3