Re: Replacement for raspPi
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 09:32:52PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:35:35 +0000
> "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 08:32:14PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > > > G'day
> > > >
> > > > I've been following the recent thread Subject: Re: Debian on Pine64
> > > > H64B?
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for suggestions for a new SBC, please. Ideally something
> > > > more than 2M RAM. I see that a few a happy with Pine laptops. Does
> > > > this translate to their SBC?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > >
> > > You'll have seen the pointer to 100+ SBCs. The problem with many of
> > > them is that they are cut down to a price point rather than being
> > > built to a quality standard. "Raspberry Pi-alike" GPIO pins don't
> > > transfer to automagically b
>
> Good to know. I haven't ventured into GPIO in the 5 years I've been
> working with the pi. I use it mainly for back up drives, and
> occasional browsing while I'm in an on-line meet
> > >
> > > I'd single out Odroid as being very highly priced by comparison but
> > > also very well built: the problem is that the boards take a while to
> > > be fully supported on non-vendor kernel and in vanilla Debian - and by
> > > that stage, the board may be out of production.
> > >
>
> I'd prefer to stick to debian based. I keep reading the debian how to
> set up network, but clearly I'm missing something somewhere as I
> haven't gotten it working yet. Boots ok. I can't use a wire to
> connect to the modem - it's too far awa
> > > Pine's RockPi with 4G of memory seems to work quite well and be
> > > relatively well supported.
DRAT - I mistyped - the Rock64 and the RockPro64? - the Rock64 has 4G of
memory and a good selection of I/O, 1G Ethernet and the potential for eMMC
storage. The RockPro has even more.
The other thing that's missing from the Raspberry Pi range is a good RTC
- a real time clock is not just a nice to have.
>
> Thank you. As it happens I was looking at this the other night.
>
> > >
> > > Factor in cases, eMMC and so on as well, if you want them. A lot of
> > > the boards do not hve a custom made case and some of them will be
> > > non-standard shapes/sizes.
>
> It's amazing. The boards look reasonably priced, but when you add on the
> necessary bits, they often get to the price of a low end laptop. I have
> wondered a few times why I don't move that way.
>
>
> > >
> > > All the very best, as ever,
>
> Very kind of you
>
> > >
> > > Andy Cater
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > >
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> All the best
>
> Keith Bainbridge
> keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com
>
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