When FriendlyELEC first launched the NanoPi R4S in late 2020 it shipped with none storage, which means you wanted to put in an working system on a bootable microSD card. Now there’s additionally a NanoPi R4SE mannequin that comes with 32GB of eMMC pre-installed, so the microSD card is fully elective.
NanoPi R4S
The NanoPi R4S and R4SE out there from the FriendlyELEC retailer with costs beginning at $65 for a mannequin with 4GB of RAM and no storage or $70 for a 4GB/32GB configuration. Theoretically you possibly can additionally pay as little as $45 for a mannequin with 1GB of reminiscence… if these fashions had been nonetheless in inventory, however it seems FriendlyELEC has bought out of the lower-priced choices.
On the coronary heart of the little laptop is the RK399 processor, which options two ARM Cortex-A72 CPU efficiency cores and 4 Cortex-A53 effectivity cores and Mali-T864 graphics (which I suppose may turn out to be useful for decoding streaming video or video games for streaming even if you happen to can’t plug in a show).
NanoPi R4SE (with 32GB eMMC)
Different options embody:
- 1 x microSD card reader for storage
- 2 x USB 3.0 Sort-A ports (plus a USB 2.0 4-pin header)
- 2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 1 x USB Sort-C port for 5V/3A energy enter
There additionally GPIO and UART pins, standing LED lights, an RTC connector, and a connector for an elective fan – however understand that the metallic case was designed for fanless use.
Related headless, single-board computer systems from the corporate just like the NanoPi R2S help open supply softw together with U-boot, Ubuntu Core, and OpenWrt, so it’s doubtless the brand new mannequin will comply with go well with as soon as it’s formally launched.
You will discover extra particulars in regards to the hardw on the FriendlyELEC wiki, the place you’ll additionally discover obtain hyperlinks for a number of working techniques together with the Ubuntu-based FriendlyCore and OpenWrt-based FriendlyWrt.
This text was initially revealed November 12, 2020 and final up to date July 25, 2022.
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