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I can't find an OPi 5 for less than $100, nearly double the price of the low spec Pi 5, and other good boards like the Rock 5 B start in the $130s. I would lov

I can't find an OPi 5 for less than $100, nearly double the price of the low spec Pi 5, and other good boards like the Rock 5 B start in the $130s. I would love to see an RK3588S board for < $50, because the chip is incredible in terms of efficiency and feature set... but it's just so expensive still.

eropple 3y ago
CanaKit and PiShop have RPi5 boards for $60. Amazon sellers have 4GB OPi5 boards for $80. https://www.amazon.com/Orange-Pi-Frequency-Development-Android12/dp/B0BN16ZLXB https://www.amazon.com/Orange-Pi-Frequency-Development-Andro... My contention is for things that actually need relatively-modern performance (taking into account that the RK3588 is still a little old, albeit Very Fresh for a SBC), I think that $20 is probably worth it for most of them.
bscphil 3y ago
Do you have a good sense of what boards are worth looking at for media center use cases? In the last few years it's become the norm to need to be able to drive a 4k display with HDR metadata, and decode 4k HEVC with HDR in hardware (and ideally pass through Dolby Vision as well). The dream is to be able to do that with a relatively inexpensive board with just the mainline kernel. I've had bad luck with the Pi 4 with respect to video decoding. 4k HEVC decoding is an advertised feature of the Pi 4, but it chokes on anything with moderate bitrates in my experience. I'd like my next board to support HDR and HEVC so reliably that I never have to think about it, and I'm not sure if that's going to be the Pi 5 or not.