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Anyone find other SBCs as an alternative? Curious if anyone has been using the Khadas line up of SBCs instead...

I'm in the process of porting printnanny.ai to Rock Pi. I wrote an imager app akin to Raspberry Pi Imager to provide the same UX.

I stumbled across a project called DietPi -- https://dietpi.com. Scroll halfway down the main page and you'll see many SBCs that it works on and might be good alternatives. Khadas are not on the list, though; I've never heard of them before now.

I am excited for VisionFive 2, "the world’s first high-performance RISC-V single board computer (SBC) with an integrated GPU."

https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards

But my problem with all these SBCs (including VisionFive) is they max out at 8 GB of RAM. This is a problem for me because I want to run an Ethereum validator, and the software stack needs 16+ GB RAM. Is anyone aware of an SBC supporting 16 GB?

A bit confused about your requirements.

Aren't those boards like $200? Can't you get a "normal" computer at that range?

A normal computer has features I want to avoid, such as size, heat, fans, large power supplies, etc. A single-board ARM or RISC computer has all the compute power and peripheral connectors I need. The only missing piece is sufficient RAM.

Khadas Edge2 Pro has 16GB of RAM, $340 tho, available now, even from amazon. Radxa ROCK 5B also has 16GB of RAM, $220, available via ameridroid. Jetson Orin NX 16GB has 16GB of RAM, $600, available in Dec, would probably also require a carrier board of unspecified price.

Thanks, this is great! I didn’t know about any of these.

The closest alternative is ultra small form factor PCs, which is quite sad for a number of reasons.

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