Quick reminder that bios/uefi is actually separated system, if you need it - you are going for wrong sbc. You need something like Huawei Taishan.
Introduce ROCK 5B - ARM Desktop level SBC
Just a matter of time until Jared or any of the other BSD heroes ports it over to RK3588…
Update: the alternative would be Radxa picking up Rockchip’s own EDK2 port.
For what its worth on the schedule: Mine was a early Jan reserve, just got my order notice today and got the order completed within about 5 minutes. Noticed no heat sink with fan still, so opted for just a heat sink. Will worry about a fan on my own when it arrives.
bought coupon Jan 11, just got an email and ordered my 16GB Version
I also ordered the Acrylic Protector which you can choose to be Active Cooling and it seems to include a fan and heatsink. We will see.
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i didnt notice that the fan was part of the protector. I had planned on shoving it into an extruded aluminium housing so didnt even look.
i have preorderd it at june 1st from ameridroid and i am curius when it will start shipping
All our ROCK5 units are shipping from the factory. They tell us they plan to have shipped all units by the end of October.
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I decided to throw in the towel on waiting for this Rock 5B device; a combination of missed deadlines plus the unexistent support from @allnetchina on both their website chat and e-mail support channels left a sour taste in my mouth.
Cheers to PayPal buyer protection for refunding my deposit. Good luck.
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Really? I was hoping I bought another coupon, but I didn’t, sigh…
I sent email by replying to the coupon email I got back in Jan, two times, and both were replied, though they just asked me to wait. Then last Sunday I got the order email, completed order, and have received my 16GB board already…
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cool if all units will ship in october
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why did you delete this post?
just curius
I just realised it was on the allnet site, i should of looked first before asking 
oh ok that would be still interesting to know but i think for now ameridroid is faster with the preorders:
My is on the way since yeaterday.
oh cool is it a 16GB model, i have orderd a 16GB model
The acrylic case sold at Allnet. There’s space for a nvme card?
What wifi/BT module do you recommend?
Local store has a great price of the intel AX200 2230. My APs dont support ax but that is another story.
Look for a card with 6E, so you can benefit from the 6 GHz band as well. Like the AX210.
i thougt that it would be a bit wierd because there exists a relativley good uefi for the raspberry pi 3 and 4
and i have found on github a uefi for RK3399 and another for RK3568 and they want it to port it to the rock 5b
i dont want to run any shitty oses like windows