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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Category: Mini PC
Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?
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 Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction
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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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC
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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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Improve Wi-Fi
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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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Building a Program
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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Orange Pi 5 Max Single Board Computer: Power Consumption
In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 5 Max and compare it to some other computers.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer
The Orange Pi R2S features a RISC-V processor, four wired network ports (two 2.5G ethernet ports and two 1G ethernet ports).
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: orangepi-config
My RV2 board is running Ubuntu 24.04. Included is a configuration tool called orangepi-config. Let’s see what it offers.
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Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to some other computers.
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Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction
This is a series of articles looking at the Orange Pi R2S, the latest addition to the range of single board computers from Orange Pi.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: 2.5Gbps Networking
In this article I explore a simple upgrade to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s network speed.
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Orange Pi RV2 and compare it to some other computers.
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Benchmarking the Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer
In this article I benchmark the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to other single board computers as well as an N100 Mini PC.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max and Orange Pi RV2
I benchmark the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max, Orange Pi RV2 against a Raspberry Pi 5 and a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC.
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Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction
The Banana Pi BPI-F3 is an industrial grade RISC-V development board, designed with the SpacemiT K1 8 core RISC-V chip.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Ollama GUI
Did you know that even a Raspberry Pi 5 is able to run LLMs locally? Even better, the developer of Pi-Apps has produced an optimized install script which makes it Raspberry Pi 5 friendly.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC
This is a series of articles on the Raspberry Pi 5 focusing on using this single board computer as a desktop PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Avoid snap pollution
Declutter the output from df when the Pi 5 has snaps installed. Better yet, use an alternative to df for even nicer output.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Installing Software
Explore my favourite ways of installing new software on the Raspberry Pi 5.
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