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Ironically, the Microsoft ARM Developer Kit that was just released might be a good option. [1] I also personally have used a Qualcomm RB5 [2][3] since last year

Ironically, the Microsoft ARM Developer Kit that was just released might be a good option. [1] I also personally have used a Qualcomm RB5 [2][3] since last year and can say that it is quite snappy, though the official image is ancient and the modern Debian Linux image Linaro works on for it was still rather buggy. The most robust option is likely Nvidia's AGX Orin Developer Kit [4][5], which Nvidia maintains 20.04 Ubuntu images for [6]. 1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-dev-kit-2023/94K0P67W7581 2: https://developer.qualcomm.com/qualcomm-robotics-rb5-kit 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RArzm3h_0vg 4: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/ 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFgsOeHMAW4 6: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-linux

adrian_b 4y ago
With 4 big Cortex-X1 cores and 4 medium Cortex-A78 cores, the new MS Developer Kit should be much faster than the Qualcomm RB5, which has 4 Cortex-A77 cores. Also the price, at $600, is decent in comparison with the excessive prices requested by NVIDIA for the faster of the Orin variants. Unfortunately, the new MS Developer Kit also includes a Microsoft Pluton, and it is very likely that Pluton is configured to allow only Windows to boot. Otherwise, I would have also been tempted by it, because all the previous ARM-based alternatives have been either very slow, like Raspberry Pi, or very expensive in comparison with the computers with Intel or AMD CPUs having similar performance, like the Qualcomm and NVIDIA development kits.
- easygenes 4y ago
  The Lenovo X13s is basically a laptop version of the new dev kit, and it seems people are running Linux on it successfully [1][2], so hopefully they haven't done anything different with the dev kit. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/vh1xse/setup_linux_on_x13s_snapdragon_thinkpad_megathread/ 2: https://youtu.be/YWRbNogRBTw&t=1755
  - StillBored 4y ago
    Linux on it is very broken in any number of situations, its basically at the level of the M1, which is at the moment probably a better choice if you want a 1/2 working machine. Things you take for granted as working, and performing well, won't. Putting it another way, its at an early stage of bring up, on x86 you buy a laptop it will tend to mostly work in linux with a problem here/there that will likely get resolved over the next year or two. This is the same, only the level of busted is much worse, enough you probably won't want to actually use it as a daily driver. It's a fine windows machine, and virtualizes linux just fine, but the same can be said of the M1 as well.
- philistine 4y ago
  Looking at the images, it uses a barrel-plug looking connector for power. Is the power supply of this device external?

adrian_b 4y ago

With 4 big Cortex-X1 cores and 4 medium Cortex-A78 cores, the new MS Developer Kit should be much faster than the Qualcomm RB5, which has 4 Cortex-A77 cores. Also the price, at $600, is decent in comparison with the excessive prices requested by NVIDIA for the faster of the Orin variants. Unfortunately, the new MS Developer Kit also includes a Microsoft Pluton, and it is very likely that Pluton is configured to allow only Windows to boot. Otherwise, I would have also been tempted by it, because all the previous ARM-based alternatives have been either very slow, like Raspberry Pi, or very expensive in comparison with the computers with Intel or AMD CPUs having similar performance, like the Qualcomm and NVIDIA development kits.

easygenes 4y ago
The Lenovo X13s is basically a laptop version of the new dev kit, and it seems people are running Linux on it successfully [1][2], so hopefully they haven't done anything different with the dev kit. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/vh1xse/setup_linux_on_x13s_snapdragon_thinkpad_megathread/ 2: https://youtu.be/YWRbNogRBTw&t=1755
- StillBored 4y ago
  Linux on it is very broken in any number of situations, its basically at the level of the M1, which is at the moment probably a better choice if you want a 1/2 working machine. Things you take for granted as working, and performing well, won't. Putting it another way, its at an early stage of bring up, on x86 you buy a laptop it will tend to mostly work in linux with a problem here/there that will likely get resolved over the next year or two. This is the same, only the level of busted is much worse, enough you probably won't want to actually use it as a daily driver. It's a fine windows machine, and virtualizes linux just fine, but the same can be said of the M1 as well.
philistine 4y ago
Looking at the images, it uses a barrel-plug looking connector for power. Is the power supply of this device external?