Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing what your main machine is and your general use case? For years I wanted something like a Raspberry Pi to be practical, but they struggled way too hard just playing videos from websites (I stopped buying them at Pi 4)
I use a MNT Reform with the RK3588 module and 32G of RAM. It’s for general browsing, working remotely, light CAD, light video editing and retro-gaming.
Performance-wise, it’s equivalent to a bad laptop from 6 years ago. But I’m not a demanding user. It’s fine for what I do, and it has other advantages I paid the huge premium for - one of which is the ability to upgrade the CPU module, and there’s a new one in the works from MNT.
I’m sort of considering splurging on a System76 Thelio Astra, but I haven’t opened my wallet yet - and probably won’t - because it’s an American company and I refuse to buy American whenever possible. So I’m still looking at equivalent machines from Europe or Asia. But I’m not looking very hard because computers don’t interest me much anymore.
Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing what your main machine is and your general use case? For years I wanted something like a Raspberry Pi to be practical, but they struggled way too hard just playing videos from websites (I stopped buying them at Pi 4)
I use a MNT Reform with the RK3588 module and 32G of RAM. It’s for general browsing, working remotely, light CAD, light video editing and retro-gaming.
Performance-wise, it’s equivalent to a bad laptop from 6 years ago. But I’m not a demanding user. It’s fine for what I do, and it has other advantages I paid the huge premium for - one of which is the ability to upgrade the CPU module, and there’s a new one in the works from MNT.
I’m sort of considering splurging on a System76 Thelio Astra, but I haven’t opened my wallet yet - and probably won’t - because it’s an American company and I refuse to buy American whenever possible. So I’m still looking at equivalent machines from Europe or Asia. But I’m not looking very hard because computers don’t interest me much anymore.
Thanks for the info!
It does seem like the only feasible arm devices are high end machines intended for arm development, or basically different flavors of SBCs.