I was going to go the pi route until I did a little research and now I'm leaning towards an ODROID-XU4Q. I will be using it as a web browsing machine. Will my wife be disappointed with her Facebook?
Can it handle the video is my greatest question.
I seek the wisdom of those who have used these SBCs.
Thank you for your time
just get her one of those poverty-tier amazon tablets if all she does is facebook
Interesting. I don't know anything about that model, though.
I tried to use one of my pis as a web browsing machine a couple weeks back. I stopped. It worked but was noticeably under powered.
Did not handle YouTube great.
Was using HypriotOS with Xfce.
She has to have an actual full size keyboard and monitor. I'm interested in checking this board out but can't justify it if it won't do what she needs
Thanks for the feedback. After doing a little comparison, I thought it might be. The Odroid looked meaty enough but I'm not sure ARM will work well with flash,etc
then a raspberry pi will suffice as long as its just facebook
remember that Facebook is used by tons of pajeets and other third world ends with half the specs of a raspberry pi so facebook is designed to run on anything
That's what I needed to hear.
Thank you all for contributing
Actually, indians use basic.facebook.com not the regular version which is overbloated
I feel I'm being joshed
Why are you married? Why is your wife using Facebook? You better smack that cunt's mouth right off.
If you need powerful desktop replace how about something like MACCHIATObin?
i owned the one with a fan until a few days ago (sold to a friend)
first
>install armbian
Can it play video? Not really unfortunately...
>ODROID
overpiced shit
> I POSTED IT AGAIN XDDD
>Buying an SBC for basic computation
Fuck off you tech illiterate retards. Get her a cheap ass ThinkPad for $60 on eBay instead.
kys
you can plug full size keyboard & mouse into a poverty tablet.
the odroid willl be much faster than raspberry pi at browsing..
stop memeing him you dumb piece of shit
the only thing worse than being oblivious is false knowledge
There are videos on youtube of guy browsing with odroid and having hardware accelerated youtube but I don't know how much work is to set all that up.
should be done by the browser. hardware accelerated youtube would just be h264 acceleration which should be done just fine.
There are also videos of people testing it as games emulator. Not sure what you mean with "how much work". Just the usual Linux distro stuff?
also, reddit.com
note the other link is about raspberry pi but it is applicable to all boards since they're all ARM arch
he was thinking it took work to setup hardware accelerated youtube
Why don't you buy a random 100 USD Optiplex?
Or a Thinkpad?
I don't know, always used those boards headless but even getting hardware acc. youtube on older win hardware requires some work, like manually enabling hardware decoding in chrome and installing h264ify.
Same goes for local 264 playback with mpchc or vlc.
Odroid is like 3x faster than Pi.
But OP should really do this.
I've used the UP2 4GB model as a desktop computer. Works pretty fast for a SBC, and can run windows 10 if you need it to.
up-shop.org
Odroid support is shit, I would get her a 300 USD laptop and install linux on it.
t. Odroid U3 owner
every SBC support is fucking shit
raspberry pi is "ok" and ardunio is "good"
rest are literally garbage
My point, exactly.
The Asus tinker board S will be released in a few weeks.
>Onboard 16GB eMMC
>wireless 802.11 b/g/n & BT 4.0 + EDR
>HDMI up to 4K/30fps
>40-pin GPIO header w/ enhanced I2S
Bruh, are you short on cash or something? You’ll regret this and your wife is going to hate on how slow it’ll be. Drop $150 on some used dell optiplex on eBay with an i5 and you’ll be golden. She’ll still be using that shit in 10 years. Source, my wife is still using the sff optiplex with a c2d I picked up from work like 10 years ago.
>I just want to download shit online and have it work
If you need "support" for an SBC, you're using it completely wrong and just stick to ricing i3. I bet you retards don't even know the most basic assembly registers for every common or rather any architecture.
doesnt this shit only runs on android cause there are no drivers for linux?
if you need a browsing machine just get an intel compute stick
i3 is garbage kiddo
>facebook
badum tish
yeah, and you have to use propiretary blobs to make wifi and bluetooth work, the bootloader will be closed source and the cpu wont load any bootloader without signing
rpi's are among the slowest of the sbc's you can get these days
their only plus is support/popularity
>asus
support will be dropped before the boards even hit the stores
it is already not supported
there is zero towards the open source community. There is a system image with the precompiled drivers which will get soon obselete in 2-3 kernel version jumps. So say goodbye to wifi, bluetooth, 3d acceleration if you want to be up to date. You wont be able to make android or bsd to run on this board without reverse enginiering the driver blobs or making one from scratch and hacks.
Youtube does not serve h264 by default.
It's expensive as fuck tho.
besides that ram it's way weaker than odroid or banana or orange
you can get thinkpads for 150€ 200€ and it will be far more worthy investing into than into a Raspberry pi that you will throw away in a year