US$50 (~A$70) off Coupon for US$5 (~A$7) for Pre Order of Rock5 Model B (4GB RAM: US$84, ~A$118) @ Allnet.china

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Gazzavic on 03/02/2022 - 14:43 shop.allnetchina.cn (910 clicks)
Last edited 03/02/2022 - 15:13 by 1 other user

If you're into sbc's the specs on this new board look pretty amazing though it won't ship for a wee while yet. Still for the price and the specs you get I think this will be good value. The price excludes shipping and is only the base board, not power cables and accessories which would be extra.

Join the excited crowd of RK3588 fans now, and be one of the first to get your hands on the brand new RADXA Rock5 Model B.

But that is not all - you will also enjoy an early adopter price deduction of 50USD on the Rock5 Model B of your choice.

PRICES:

Rock5 Model B 4GB RAM USD129 -> after discount USD79

Rock5 Model B 8GB RAM USD 149 -> after discount USD99

Rock5 Model B 16GB RAM USD189 -> after discount USD139

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  Gazzavic on 03/02/2022 - 14:47

  Edited to save $45 as you have to pay $5 to secure the code

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  Phoebus on 03/02/2022 - 15:44

  +1

  But what would you do with such a powerful beast?
  There's Raspberry Pi for DNS and other Pi projects.
  Nvidia mini PC for AI projecrts…
  What does this offer that these can't?

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    skid on 03/02/2022 - 16:13

    Low power consumption, fast CPU, much RAM is what I would use it for.

    Do you have a link to this Nvidia mini PC that you speak of? Do you mean Nvidia Shield?

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      ihfree on 03/02/2022 - 16:41

      +1

      https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-…

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    ihfree on 03/02/2022 - 16:24

    +1

    • Use of USB-PD for power
    • Supports M.2 SSDs and eMMC

    and of course, it's actually available with higher ram configurations

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  Price Jack on 03/02/2022 - 15:45

  +1

  It's tempting.
  If there was a commitment from the Libreelec team (or Coreelec for that matter) to develop for it, I'd be straight on it.
  Otherwise I'll hold out to see what other SBC's are released this year

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  chromotype on 03/02/2022 - 16:05

  +1

  The same "pre-order discount" is available from ameridroid: https://ameridroid.com/products/rock5-model-b

  The "announcement" from radxa is here: https://forum.radxa.com/t/introduce-rock-5-model-b-arm-deskt…

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  Mark Xu on 03/02/2022 - 16:29

  Is this thing can do the same thing as pi? dose it support pi cameras?

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    pc6673 on 03/02/2022 - 17:56

    it has two mipi I/O, so would be a lot of cameras to fit that.

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      whats up skip on 05/02/2022 - 17:29

      But that doesn't mean it will work in software.

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        pc6673 on 05/02/2022 - 17:44

        what I talking about is the hardware interface standard at bottom physical level which is the prerequisite; just like you cannot put one AGP GPU on current PCIE slot…
        software is another thing and developers can handle that in future maybe.

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  xfelix on 03/02/2022 - 17:24

  +7

  May lack software support

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    eraser215 on 03/02/2022 - 20:33

    +1

    That's the biggest challenge with any SBC that isn't a raspberry pi. I have a couple of cubox i4-vpro machines and they are great, but lack of ongoing support limits their usefulness.

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    netsurfer on 03/02/2022 - 20:39

    Yeah, that's going to be an issue. RK3399 support still isn't great, RK3588, by the time it comes out, would probably have very little support.

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    garage sale on 04/02/2022 - 01:03

    +1

    software support, community, educational material, all reasons i have PIs instead of some of the other options that have better specs on paper …..might be different if i was building 100s or 1000s of something, but for hobbyist projects the PI is an easy path.

    just wish PI has a cleaner way to get m2 or other ssd option rather than the flash card, but then it is built to be cheap and accessible to wide range of people including kids in poor countries and for some the cost of ssd is prohibitive vs flash card , and the cost of adding the connector increases the cost of the PI ….

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      whats up skip on 05/02/2022 - 17:21

      You need the compute module for the best drive support, otherwise USB to the drive and boot from that.

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    whats up skip on 05/02/2022 - 17:27

    +2

    No, will lack software support. I wasted money on a non RPi, poor support and never lived up to the basics.

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  kingmoron on 03/02/2022 - 23:24

  What could I use it for ? I have a small homelab

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  repeat on 04/02/2022 - 11:34

  Thanks for the deal - I bought a voucher for the middle one.
  The features I find most compelling for me (that are not found on the RPI 4) are:

  M.2 socket -NVMe SSD support, so much better and less corruption prone solid state storage.
  USB-C supporting monitor and PD, as well as 2 more HDMI (unfortunately only USB3.1 gen1 5Gps but at least has altDP support). Hopefully (unlike the RPi4) should work with a USB-c hub that supports AltDP output (possibly allowing even more displays).
  CPU with A76 cores - my guessing around snapdragon 855 performance so should be snappy to use, and superior performance to the A72 cores in the RPi 4
  https://www.anandtech.com/show/12785/arm-cortex-a76-cpu-unve…

  As others have mentioned the big question will be adequate OS support but they have made an attractive platform so hopefully they will support developers with some open source development resources

  One of these with a lapdock would be interesting.

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  McOzbargainer on 07/03/2022 - 06:17

  Once it gets mainline support, then I would buy it. Too many cool sbcs that have to use a hacked kernel because they can't/won't mainline.