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> another one in a sea of clones Is there a clone which can browse modern heavyweight web (like YouTube) without tears, runs the original Raspberry Pi OS (not

> another one in a sea of clones Is there a clone which can browse modern heavyweight web (like YouTube) without tears, runs the original Raspberry Pi OS (not the x86 clone), has the same (or bigger) set of GPIO pins and supports Raspberry PI hats? More IO would also be great to have. I don't mind if it costs some hundreds dollars. I'd love to have passive cooling though. And it has to be approximately the same size, MiniITX won't fit.

PedroBatista 4y ago
With all those requirements, I don't think so. The problem with the "clones" is they are more or less the same but have one or two components as their strong point, one has a beefier CPU, the other has more IO, one has an "AI engine", etc but when it comes to smooth performance for the "normal" end-user, ie. run a bunch of tabs with "modern" sites in a smooth way every time you'll need to enter x86 territory. Then this whole affordable SBC tinker thing doesn't make sense because these are 2 different worlds. I know because I've been obsessing for a sub ~$70 SBC that supports a bunch of SATA disks ( natively, no USB trickery ) for a decade. Up until Apple's M1, desktop ARM was always an "almost there" experience at best and most were a terrible experience. ( Software is a big part in this too ) In the next few year I think things will change for the better.