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" <amaca...@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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > All the best > > Keith Bainbridge > keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com >
