2 ms·

NanoPi M4V2 may be better. plus you can install nvme drives in it for additional io perf.

gorgoiler 6y ago
I love the diversity in this space but unfortunately I’ve been burned by off-brand pi stuff before. Pine’s RockPro64 and Libre Renegade Elite are two lovely RK3399 devices that I’ve tried. However, each has sufficient quirks that something more mainstream like the Raspberry Pi 4 (with a wide user base, more Google hits for common problems, etc) will hopefully let me focus on using the device as opposed to getting it to function. Non-RPi SBCs also seem to require a lot of off-brand community patches to get them working. I’m pretty wary of bringing an OS build which I downloaded from a third party github page onto a campus full of children. I don’t have any reason to believe the community builds are nefarious, but it’s less of a risk to stick with Raspberry Pi, IMHO.
- hoistbypetard 6y ago
  > Pine’s RockPro64 and Libre Renegade Elite are two lovely RK3399 devices that I’ve tried. However, each has sufficient quirks that something more mainstream like the Raspberry Pi 4 (with a wide user base, more Google hits for common problems, etc) will hopefully let me focus on using the device as opposed to getting it to function. The Pinebook pro is really nice (I've had one since the beginning of the year) but I completely share your sentiment. I really like mine and spend almost no time fiddling with it now. It made a really nice, reliable daily driver for my son this spring during the sudden and unplanned distance learning the pandemic brought us. But I would not recommend it to anyone whose computer I couldn't/wouldn't personally fix right now. It's close, but not there yet IMO. Bootstrapping, power management and sound all have more rough edges than running Linux on a normal x86 system does right now. I say this fondly: it's still a bit of a project right now. (That's part of the fun for me, but doesn't match your stated focus at all.)

I love the diversity in this space but unfortunately I’ve been burned by off-brand pi stuff before. Pine’s RockPro64 and Libre Renegade Elite are two lovely RK3399 devices that I’ve tried. However, each has sufficient quirks that something more mainstream like the Raspberry Pi 4 (with a wide user base, more Google hits for common problems, etc) will hopefully let me focus on using the device as opposed to getting it to function. Non-RPi SBCs also seem to require a lot of off-brand community patches to get them working. I’m pretty wary of bringing an OS build which I downloaded from a third party github page onto a campus full of children. I don’t have any reason to believe the community builds are nefarious, but it’s less of a risk to stick with Raspberry Pi, IMHO.

hoistbypetard 6y ago
> Pine’s RockPro64 and Libre Renegade Elite are two lovely RK3399 devices that I’ve tried. However, each has sufficient quirks that something more mainstream like the Raspberry Pi 4 (with a wide user base, more Google hits for common problems, etc) will hopefully let me focus on using the device as opposed to getting it to function. The Pinebook pro is really nice (I've had one since the beginning of the year) but I completely share your sentiment. I really like mine and spend almost no time fiddling with it now. It made a really nice, reliable daily driver for my son this spring during the sudden and unplanned distance learning the pandemic brought us. But I would not recommend it to anyone whose computer I couldn't/wouldn't personally fix right now. It's close, but not there yet IMO. Bootstrapping, power management and sound all have more rough edges than running Linux on a normal x86 system does right now. I say this fondly: it's still a bit of a project right now. (That's part of the fun for me, but doesn't match your stated focus at all.)