rk3399: like a Pi, but more RAM/CPU/I/O?

[Anon Anon]

I bought a pine64. It claimed all the above plus 4k support. But there is
literally no support and most stuff wont run on it. Never again. Pi or
nothing here on out.

On Jan 3, 2017 15:10, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> the reason Pi has not done the USB3 is because of those binary blobs you
> mentioned.
>
> for my use i will stick with the Pi. or move on to an intel compute stick.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> Saw this kickstarter link earlier:  https://www.kickstarter.com/pr
>> ojects/1771382379/firefly-rk3399-six-core-64-bit-high-performance-pl/ .
>> They say that they're putting together an ARM single-board machine with USB
>> 3 ports, 1, 2, or 4G of RAM, dual-monitor capability, and the ability to
>> run Android or Ubuntu.  "Like a Raspberry Pi but with more power" seems to
>> be what they were going for.
>>
>> This sounds sort of interesting, even though it's a bit more expensive
>> than a Pi.  The kickstarter's fully funded, and it looks like these people
>> have already built and shipped a couple of other ARM boards.  Main problem
>> I could see is that the hardware will probably be dependent on binary blobs
>> and it'll be a PITA to run anything but whatever kernel they give you.  The
>> Pi also has a large community that has hashed out many problems, while this
>> system will probably involve new and exciting bugs.  Thoughts?
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