After having been burned on crappy software support on rockship devices, I think this will take over for my TV box.
ODROID-H4 - A Compact Alder Lake N-Series SBC with up to dual 2.5GbE and four SATA III ports
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uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
qaz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve used the RockPi-S for a project a while ago. The software to write to the on-board storage was in Chinese. Without any way to turn it off, I had to hold my phone with Google Translate in front of the screen to navigate around it, although that might have been the least unintuitive part of the software. The alternative cli-software refused to compile at first and then refused to use the forwarded USB device. I ended up booting Fedora on my work laptop just to run it.
I recommend trying out Armbian if you still have problems with it. The images provided by them are significantly more reliable, I haven’t had any issues, while some official images failed to boot. Also avoid the models with on-board storage, just use an SD card, it really isn’t worth the hassle.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I run Armbian on my Radxa devices! A huge life saver.
I use a Rock 5B with an Android TV image for my TV box, but it is janky at best. I’d run an Armbian desktop release of I could, but HDMI is broken on all of them.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Cant wait for the review on explainingcomputers.com 🤓
pacoboyd@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t need to upgrade my NAS…
qaz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The N100 seems to have a 6% lower benchmark score. This seems like a good competitor to those Topton motherboards from Aliexpress.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
That’s a lot of heatsink
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 6 months ago
There’s a lot of heat to sink.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
This is why it’s #ARMMasterRace
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Looks like it’s designed to not need a fan
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
Fanless machines are about to have their day.