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Or buy a RPI where you get software that actually works and is supported.

On software side, RPi (or intel N100 for that matter) is the winner but take a look at RK3588 datasheet [1] and tell me of an Arm or x86 SBC that tops what it offers. It even comes with a NPU lol

[1]: https://www.rock-chips.com/uploads/pdf/2022.8.26/192/RK3588%...

An NPU with no driver support in the main Linux kernel, only in a vendor-provided fork containing dubious-quality drivers:

https://forum.radxa.com/t/lack-of-concern-for-security-in-bs...

https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2024/03/rockchip-npu-update-1-w...

You really think RockPi5 is an SBC on par with Advantech and Aaeon?

As a Rock3A owner I can say no. It may look like a real SBC but it is not.

The rk3566 used in Rock3A is a poor 4-core Cortex-A55 chip, it can't even beat the RPi 4. But when it comes to the 4xA76 + 4xA55 in the rk3588/Rock5, they can't be compared, not to mention the 8k60 video codec and NPU support in the 3588.

The RK3566 is a $6 SOC, the RK3568 is $9 - there are a million use cases for these where RPis are just too expensive.

With 32G RAM? Besides, manufacturer diversity is a good thing. "Just buy X" comments need to die.

Software support being hand hold-y is nice and all but entirely pointless if the hardware isn't performant enough to run the workloads you want/need.

I don't think it's acceptable to have no H264 and AV1 hardware decoders in 2025, or even NPU support.

Depends on your use-case. For a headless server those are more often than not irrelevant.

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