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Orange Pi 5 Is A Great & Very Fast Alternative To The Raspberry Pi 4 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

They're in stock for about $138 right now.

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

If they can handle playing 1080p videos streaming without lag or tearing, then I am very much going to get either the 16GB or 32GB.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Can you use Raspberry Pi "hats" on this board?

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

PSA: If you don't absolutely need ARM or the really tiny form factor and can settle for higher power consumption, you can get a used Dell or Lenovo business PC from a few years ago for less than a new Raspberry Pi or even some of the higher end alternatives/clones but with similar computing power. Or something a lot more powerful for not that much more.

I really like their ultra-small form factor models. About the size of a coffee table book so not that much larger than a raspi with a case, and if you factor in the fairly high quality case, more I/O, active cooling, non-soldered CPU and RAM, and expansion through hard drive slots and M.2, it's an even better value.

[–] basiliscos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I bought one of the first orange PIs: they have terrible support for hardware, notable for the wifi: it is shipped as blob only in content of Armbian. No upstream drivers. You cannot have wifi and some other OS (even updated Armbian) nor openwrt etc.

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