Yes they are cheap... but their hardware has a high fault-rate. Hardware support is there but the software support is crappy at best. Allwinners SoC's pretty mu

Yes they are cheap... but their hardware has a high fault-rate. Hardware support is there but the software support is crappy at best. Allwinners SoC's pretty much have zero support in the open source community. They use old kernels. You will be running old kernels and graphics drivers. Also... the old Orange Pi SoC got notoriously hot. 60-75 degress celcius. You needed an active cooler or very big passive one. Lets not forget the ridiculous patched kernel by Allwinner. They forgot to remove their "debug" code which basically allowed total control over devices shipped with the kernel; http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1108-security-alert-for-allwinner-sun8i-h3a83th8/http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1108-security-alert-for-allwinner-sun8i-h3a83th8/ http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1108-security-alert... I'd be very causcius about using this SBC. Sure it's fine for fiddling around. You're better of with ODroid.