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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC: Power Consumption

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Firefly AIBOX-358SS fanless PC.

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TEAMGROUP X1 Max Flash Drive

TEAMGROUP X1 MAX 512GB USB 3.2 Gen 2 Flash Drive Review

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The TEAMGROUP X1 MAX flash drive is available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities with 1000 MB/s reads and 900 MB/s write speeds.

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WiFi

BrosTrend AX3000 WiFi Range Extender & Wi-Fi to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Review

July 29, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Internet, Reviews

The BrosTrend AX3000 is a 2 in 1 device. First, it’s a dual band Wi-Fi range extender. It also provides a Wi-Fi to Gigabit ethernet adapter.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Benchmarking the Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC

July 28, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I benchmark the Firefly AIBOX-3588S and compare it to single board computers (both ARM and RISC-V) as well as an Intel N100 Mini PC.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I’ll see how the Orange Pi R2S compares to a few other single board computers and mini PCs which cost considerably more.

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Image of the Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

A question I get asked a fair bit is whether the Raspberry Pi 5 represents good value to purchase as a desktop PC.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the Firefly AIBOX 3588S embedded fanless ARM-based mini PC.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I document transferring my Ubuntu distribution from the microSD card to the eMMC. It makes the distro much snappier on the RV2.

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WiFi

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Improve Wi-Fi

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Let’s try to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s Wi-Fi performance (transfer speed and latency) with a USB 3.0 adapter from BrosTrend.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Building a Program

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Options for installing software are a bit more limited with the RV2 compared with ARM-based single board computers. Let’s build a piece of open source software.

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