News Khadas' Latest Arm PC And SBC Now Available to Buy

[Admin]

Eight-core Arm power on offer as latest maker boards touch down.

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[bit_user]

Do want! But the Edge2 could use a second HDMI, especially to compete with the Pi 4.

The starting price isn't too bad, not least due to what Pi 4 is selling for these days! It's sure a lot better than the Firefly board, but that has the advantage of being mini-ITX and having a PCIe, SATA, and a M.2 slot.

Other thoughts:

• It's a good call that they start at 8 GB.
• There's also a 16 GB model, but that adds $100. 🙁
• I'm really not too happy about the fan. They don't say how many RPM is typical or max, but it's small so I think you'll probably hear it.
• Seems to have neither integrated wifi nor ethernet? Not happy about that. I mean, you can add a dongle, but those are ugly and for the price I'd expect at least wifi.

I hope ODROID comes out with a RK3588 board. They have other Rockchip boards, so it could happen.

 

[jefferzbooboo]

Do want! But the Edge2 could use a second HDMI, especially to compete with the Pi 4.

The starting price isn't too bad, not least due to what Pi 4 is selling for these days! It's sure a lot better than the Firefly board, but that has the advantage of being mini-ITX and having a PCIe, SATA, and a M.2 slot.

Other thoughts:

• It's a good call that they start at 8 GB.
• There's also a 16 GB model, but that adds $100. 🙁
• I'm really not too happy about the fan. They don't say how many RPM is typical or max, but it's small so I think you'll probably hear it.
• Seems to have neither integrated wifi nor ethernet? Not happy about that. I mean, you can add a dongle, but those are ugly and for the price I'd expect at least wifi.

I hope ODROID comes out with a RK3588 board. They have other Rockchip boards, so it could happen.

Beginning of the third paragraph, "You also get things like Wi-Fi 6"

 

[bit_user]

Beginning of the third paragraph, "You also get things like Wi-Fi 6"

Thanks. I had actually gone straight to the manufacturer's product page, followed the "Buy" link, and eyeballed the specs on that page, as well as searching them for "wifi" and "ethernet". I see they also mention "Wi-Fi 6".

Good to know I simply missed it, but I'm still not happy about no Ethernet. 2.5 Gbps would've been very nice, at this price point.

Also, bummed not to see a M.2 slot. I think that's an even bigger deficit than lack of Ethernet.

I really hope somebody besides Firefly builds a mini-ITX board with this SoC. I think Firefly's is cool, but having the CPU and RAM on a daughter card seems to add cost & complexity. I'm sure someone like ASUS or ASRock could do it a lot cheaper.