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__void | 2 years ago

they are very different, esp32 is an advanced microcontroller (with wifi/bt) and is comparable to an arduino on steroids, whereas this board uses cortex a35 and is more comparable to a raspberry

esp32 has 520 Kb of ram, while this board has 512 Mb!

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StillBored|2 years ago

"comparable to a raspberry"

Well, slightly worse, as A35's are smaller and lower power than the A53's in something like the pi zero-2, but also slower. The devices slight clock advantage probably doesn't make up the difference.

So, its probably a great embedded system, but it should be running something lighter weight than a normal linux distro. Otherwise it becomes like all these gas station pumps, point of sale terminals that all seem to take 10+ seconds to do things that older devices didn't lag and pause with.