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SG- | 3 months ago

the performance and power usage is pretty bad on it. for $50 more you can get a Mac mini M4 that blows it out of the water.

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bhouston|3 months ago

I think that is a result of this being their first entry into the ARM market. IT takes a while to get all the hardware and drivers in sync. Hopefully they don't give up and also upgrade to a better CPU.

porphyra|3 months ago

There has got to be some firmware bugs causing high power usage, but also the CIX CPU is fabbed on TSMC 6 nm process which is a couple generations old.

znpy|3 months ago

Supposedly that could be fixable with a bios/firmware update… but there’s no guarantee that will ever happen

geerlingguy|3 months ago

And note that Radxa launched their O6 with the same SoC earlier this year, and they haven't brought down idle power consumption either.

There's also the Orange Pi 6 Plus, and the Radxa O6N with the same SoC, they would all benefit from the power issues on this chip being resolved. Not sure if it'll happen.