On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:54:51AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Seeed sent me an ad/newsletter describing a potentially interesting SBC. > > <https://www.seeedstudio.com/Rock-Pi-X-Model-B-4GB-p-4277.html> > > (Seeed is a Chinese company that's a bit like Adafruit. If you like > SBCs and playing with circuit's, Seeed's newsletter is worth > subscribing to. It's not just advertising.) > > Summary: quite a bit of machine for the price. But fairly niche. You > will likely want to add a case , a power supply, and a battery for the > clock. Software support is really easy since it is X86-64. > > Details: > > Rock Pi X B4E32 pre-order: US$75 + shipping > > - Atom X5-Z8350 (old Atom; 64-bit) > > - 4GiB RAM (64-bit dual channel) > > - 32G eMMC. Should be faster than SD. Large enough for a full Linux > distro. > > - microSD socket > > - HDMI 2.0 up to 4k@30Hz (I would have expected HDMI 1.x; this doesn't > seem to match Intel's spec for the chip)
Not sure what makes it HDMI 2.0, since 4k@30Hz is HDMI 1.4 speed. Could also be they are wrong and it is in fact HDMI 1.4. > - WiFi 802.11ac > > - BlueTooth 4.2 > > - gigabit ethernet > > - one USB 3.0 (OTG: can be host or device, if I understand correctly) > > - three USB 2.0 > > - a 40-pin expansion header for hanging your circuits off > > > My Impression: > > - quite a lot for the same price as a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GiB of RAM > > - processor is old: introduced in early 2016 but little different from > z8500 introduced in early 2015. "Cherry Trail" > > - I have a tiny PC (a Kangaroo) with the similar z8500 processor. It > doesn't quite cut it for streaming video under Windows 10 at FullHD. > By that I mean: it works but sometimes struggles. Intel's site > suggests that the Z8500 should be faster but perhaps cooling is an issue > on my Kangaroo or the 2 GiB RAM is pinching > > <https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=85474,93361> Interesting little board though. Not that I have any use for one at this time. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
