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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Category: Hardware
BrosTrend 5 Port 2.5GB Switch Review
The BrosTrend 5 Port 2.5GB Switch retails for £38. It’s a very cheap way to upgrade your local network for faster transfers.
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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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Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor U13ZT Review
The Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor is an inexpensive, extremely lightweight, very slim, monitor designed to be moved around. Here’s my verdict.
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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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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction
The Orange Pi RV2 is a low cost RISC-V single board computer designed to be an affordable option to explore RISC-V technology.
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Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max Single Board Computers Running Linux: Introduction
In this series, I’m exploring two ARM-based single board computers produced by Orange Pi.
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UPERFECT Unify B5 Portable Monitor 1080P Display Review
My findings on the UPERFECT 15.6″ VESA portable monitor 1080P display.
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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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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: PiGro – system configuration tool
PiGro is a free and open source system configuration tool that streamlines managing your Raspberry Pi settings from one convenient location.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: raspi-config
raspi-config is a script that offers an easy way to start configuring the Raspberry Pi 5.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Overclocking
I rerun some benchmarks, this time comparing an overclocked Raspberry Pi 5 to an Intel N100 Mini PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Benchmarking
What’s the rationale of benchmarking the Pi 5 against an N100? Simple! This series is looking at using the Pi 5 as a desktop machine.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Passive Cooling the Right Way
Passively cool the Raspberry Pi 5 the right way. Use the case as a heatsink. No fan noise to interrupt your concentration.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Script to use a ZRAM swapdrive
Installing a script to enable ZRAM and optimize its effectiveness on Raspberry Pi computers. It’s very useful for low RAM Pi models.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Increase Swap Memory Size
In this article I explain how to increase the swap file. This helps performance on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM or less.
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iRasptek Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Starter Kit Review
The iRasptek Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Starter Kit gives you everything you need to get started with your adventures with the Pi 5.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Power Consumption
For this article, I’ll focus on the power consumption of the Raspberry Pi 5. I’ll see how the Pi 5 compares to a few other mini PCs.
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