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- Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing - There

- Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing - There's a notice in there that 'orange pi' is registered trademark of their company but clearly stealing the pi thing from raspberry - Finally they say that the pi is aging. I think they're missing the point of the raspberry pi. This just kind of feels like a cash grab. The pi came out with the noble purpose of educating children in the UK with a computer that was so simple and cheap all you needed to do was grab a keyboard and a TV and you could learn to program. They've accomplished so much more than what they started out to do. It's just insulting to see something like this. If I wanted more power I could just get a NUC. That said I have wanted to look into something like the pi but in a laptop form factor.

noissruit 4y ago
> - Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing It'd have taken you two seconds to check that. No, it's not the first Orange Pi product. > The pi came out with the noble purpose of educating children in the UK with a computer that was so simple and cheap all you needed to do was grab a keyboard and a TV and you could learn to program. That's great and all but as a hobbyist who can't buy the Raspberry Pi in part because of production allotments to commercial integrations, it rings a little hollow.
alxmdev 4y ago
You're not wrong, these things are just future e-waste with short-term support, like another commenter mentioned.
- sliken 4y ago
  There's quite a bit of activity getting the rk3588 working in the mainline kernel. People having current mainline kernel+patches working today, and getting those patches mainstreamed has been making steady progress. Some places to watch the activity if interested: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rockchip/list/ My nano Pi R6S (another SBC with RK3588) has dual 2.5GBE and 1GBE, is pretty fast, and has 8GB ram. I expect it to be useful for many years to come.
sliken 4y ago
Heh, or maybe: the orange zero orange pi plus 2e orange pi 3 lts orange pi 4 lts orange pi 5 In any case the rk3588 is available with 4x the PCIe, 2x the ram, 2-8x the performance, and ethernet and storage are over PCIe (not USB). Seems like a decent generational upgrade.

noissruit 4y ago

> - Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing It'd have taken you two seconds to check that. No, it's not the first Orange Pi product. > The pi came out with the noble purpose of educating children in the UK with a computer that was so simple and cheap all you needed to do was grab a keyboard and a TV and you could learn to program. That's great and all but as a hobbyist who can't buy the Raspberry Pi in part because of production allotments to commercial integrations, it rings a little hollow.

alxmdev 4y ago

You're not wrong, these things are just future e-waste with short-term support, like another commenter mentioned.

sliken 4y ago
There's quite a bit of activity getting the rk3588 working in the mainline kernel. People having current mainline kernel+patches working today, and getting those patches mainstreamed has been making steady progress. Some places to watch the activity if interested: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rockchip/list/ My nano Pi R6S (another SBC with RK3588) has dual 2.5GBE and 1GBE, is pretty fast, and has 8GB ram. I expect it to be useful for many years to come.

sliken 4y ago

Heh, or maybe: the orange zero orange pi plus 2e orange pi 3 lts orange pi 4 lts orange pi 5 In any case the rk3588 is available with 4x the PCIe, 2x the ram, 2-8x the performance, and ethernet and storage are over PCIe (not USB). Seems like a decent generational upgrade.