News NanoPi R4S Has Six Cores, Zero Screen Connections

[Admin]

This Raspberry Pi competitor has dual Ethernet ports and six cores, but no video out.

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[riaqn]

Calling R4S a "raspberry pi clone" (and complain not having video out) is like calling a forklift "a Camry clone" and complain not having child seat. Whoever wrote that paragraph lacks a basic sense of the SoC market.

 

[mogster]

Yeah, it's weird that every ARM-based SBC is a "Raspberry Pi clone" regardless of its intended use or market.

 

[AnorZaken]

The pi-clone thing is because of its naming.
Considering it has both LAN and WAN led, it looks very much like a little software router / firewall of sorts. Would love to play with it but... I have no actual use for it. Maybe if it's really cheap

 

[TheHughMan]

It must have an ESP Connection.

 

[techngro]

Calling R4S a "raspberry pi clone" (and complain not having video out) is like calling a forklift "a Camry clone" and complain not having child seat. Whoever wrote that paragraph lacks a basic sense of the SoC market.

That's an amazing analogy.

 

[blkhawk]

The pi-clone thing is because of its naming.
Considering it has both LAN and WAN led, it looks very much like a little software router / firewall of sorts. Would love to play with it but... I have no actual use for it. Maybe if it's really cheap

These make great OctoPi/3D Printer and Samba hosts. I use an earlier version of this Formfactor with onboard EMMC for this. It compares favorably in performance with a RPi3 and while even a RPi1 can and does run octopi its.... sluggish to say the least.

 

[IgorP]

Mr. Avram Piltch

Here you have two good sources for you to get out of the darkness.

https://www.cnx-software.com/
https://forum.armbian.com/

To learn the basics ... then write articles about single board computers that have some meaning and value.