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> - Conveniently naming their chip "5" just to one up the pi 4. They're actually were four raspberry pi's; I'm not sure the orange can say the same thing

It'd have taken you two seconds to check that. No, it's not the first Orange Pi product.

> The pi came out with the noble purpose of educating children in the UK with a computer that was so simple and cheap all you needed to do was grab a keyboard and a TV and you could learn to program.

That's great and all but as a hobbyist who can't buy the Raspberry Pi in part because of production allotments to commercial integrations, it rings a little hollow.

You're not wrong, these things are just future e-waste with short-term support, like another commenter mentioned.

There's quite a bit of activity getting the rk3588 working in the mainline kernel. People having current mainline kernel+patches working today, and getting those patches mainstreamed has been making steady progress.

Some places to watch the activity if interested:

  https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588
  https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rockchip/list/

My nano Pi R6S (another SBC with RK3588) has dual 2.5GBE and 1GBE, is pretty fast, and has 8GB ram. I expect it to be useful for many years to come.

Heh, or maybe:

  the orange zero
  orange pi plus 2e
  orange pi 3 lts
  orange pi 4 lts
  orange pi 5

In any case the rk3588 is available with 4x the PCIe, 2x the ram, 2-8x the performance, and ethernet and storage are over PCIe (not USB). Seems like a decent generational upgrade.