Thanks for the reply,
I m not comparing it with i 7. It s ok to run video, Web surfing and Office work.
Can you help for from where to buy other accessories like Case, SSD, Cables etc?
Will this Debian will be different than the Debian used generally?
Thanks
Eventually yes but at first its likely to be a Rockchip (Board Support Package) with loads of quirks and blobs that may be refactored for application but likely are for android.
Its not going to be released to the 2nd quarter and then the hard work of a standard debian install begins but does look like Android might be pretty complete from the posts we are getting.
I doubt there will be any accessories on offer until release and Radxa have done some testing and are sure its a release revision.
So the answer now at this momemnt is no, no and no.
Its got a discount voucher for pre-order for early adopters I guess this allows some revenue for Radxa to do pre-release work which I think is a great idea.
But really it is for early adopters as the process to get what you seem to be asking could take much time and there could be a long period where its not running āvideo, Web surfing and Office workā well or not at all.
The Mali 3D is very likely, the 2D graphics driver I just donāt know and same with the video decode and a whole lot more is the same.
Generally https://wiki.radxa.com/Buy contains all of what you ask but donāt currently exist as niether does the board for purchase.
Iām surprised no one had asked, but what does āsupports wifi 6e / Bluetooth 5.2ā mean? Does the board have such module included? If not, what modules are supported?
There is m.2 B & A&E key think it was supposed to say pcie 2.1 x1 before that text
Super excited for this! Are there any options available to order this to Europe?
Distributors are usually listed here but not relesed till 2nd quarter supposedly
Thanks for the fast reply! Definitely getting it if I can order it in Europe. Does the 5$ voucher apply only on purchases made on the American website?
Or allnet china as far as I know from the top links in the thread
Thanks for all the support, the R3 code is available now from our distributors:
Ok thanks. Both of those are a mess to ship to Europe but good to know there are at least two options.
Allnet is actually really good shipping from China is usually amazigly fast its just getting it back if need.
I have preordered and will buy the 1st release of a open source hardware board as often I do without a specific use purely for interest.
With the cheaper boards that may have problems I donāt mind so much as testing some of the better alternative product is an interest to what is avail and Radxa are good but 1st releases can go wrong.
I will prob not bother with the cost and hassle of a return but yeah Europe for some is a much better option as the Rock5 is getting more expensive than others I have tried.
Ok interesting. Thank you for your answer. Also, wondering regarding the possibility of SATA drives attached to this. Can you use e.g. the PENTA sata hat form Radxa on this board as well? Would make it a capable NAS.
You wouldnt want to as its PCIe 2.1 x2 when there are m.2 pcie 3.0 x5 sata available.
The PCIe 2.1 on board is a single lane I think, the PCIe3.0 is 4 lanes but only 2 would be used but fits direct if underneath the board.
Personally I think the rk3568 would be better if it didnāt have such bad format boards as RK3588 has zero kernel entries yet as very new but rk3568 seems to be getting much support.
Slightly bemused as the rk3568 with a m.2 pcie 3 has the potential to be 8x sata with 5gbe (10gbe if muxed or drop to x6 sata)
It was an absolutely kick ass nas board that somehow got overlooked.
Seems such a waste of that lovely rk3588 gpu for a relatively headless nas arrangement but hey and rk3568 much cheaper just a shame it took that pi format.
Think that is drop in penta hat dunno as was never a fan of those riser boards but guess it has on board regulators without any diy with cables.
Edit if its the jmb585 then its is pcie 3.0 x2 just rock pi4 was pcie 2.0 so yeah rk3568 and presume it all just fits.
I just hated those risers but 2nd revision was much better.
Please, chill~
You did understood what I was talking about, no need to go in extra details regarding āunpacked samplesā. Every community project hit this milestone eventually, if there will be motivation for you - awesome. No motivation? Well, someone else will try their best to make it happen, like guys who modified Armbian to provide it with panfrost and x86 emulators by default. Maybe also for free. So please, stop overreacting to this
Iām not gonna answer them, since Iām user, who just gonna use it as SAN/NAS with mdadm or ZFS and 10G - i couldnāt care less about this questions. If not Armbian, well, thatās not so comforting, but doable with ubuntu server from Rockchip/radxa
Hi,
Is it possible that i buy the board now and later on i will have all the mainline / general usable OS support after sometime OR this board / hardware will not work on later?
Thanks
50% (?) of people doesnāt know how to use Google and I donāt even expect end-users will understand the extend of software support. Even HW design folks doesnāt get it. They buy SW with the chip and much further they will not go. SW support operation is a lot bigger ā¦ but yes, a lot of that is shared among different HW, projects, etc ā¦ just look around how far some exotical device gets and how many years it takes. And job is never done.
Problems I am talking about are all common with HW. I donāt care if you donāt know how to change wallpaper or other banal problem that is common to user land.
Where we can download official Ubuntu and who will provide software support?
Not quite sure that they were paid by radxa, but if you know for sure - ok
If they common for OS - well, there is google 
If they are specific for hardware+OS - well, they unvommon then
As far as RockPi 4 showed - yes, thatās possible, but if you meant support as in āassistance in solving problem with OSā then no. If you meant ācommon OS supportā as in āBe able to run images provided by Radxa/community with common OS like debian and ubuntuā - then yes
Board will be obsolete by then. Those boards are closer to purpose driven embedded world. Projects like Armbian can usually help. But there are many other boards and very little resources ā¦
Eh, why so saltyā¦
I am not really sure Dante as from what I have been reading of late by Igor, mainline is just fanaticism and Armbian will give support if a vendor pays for it.
Shelving a board on a non mainline BSP of indefinite support requirements for me is a good way to ensure it becomes obselete and from what has been said before due to Amrbian not recieving any $ no support help will be given.
I guess we will have to see as there is a lot of crossover with the rk356x where collabora have made many times more mainline submissions in the last couple of weeks than Armbian have in years.
How long the rk3588 will take on a new board on a freshly released soc is impossible to gauge until it is released but guess with a Rockchip product the RK356x should be a good indication as donāt think Armbian are involved in the mainline āhelpā.
The Radxa zero is Amlogic but think that is mainly libreelec as they take relatively s-hitty tvboxes and turn them into pretty amazing kodi boxes and it seems much of the work goes on there and xda forums .
Raspberry does have effect on board obselence as alternative vendors try to race ahead as the rk3399 is less attractive now than when its competition was the pi3, same with the Radxa Zero when its competition was the 1st edition pi0 but they are not obselete just less attractive than they once where.
So guess we will just have to wait and see, but have a hunch the RK3588 may be an attractive alternative for some time as Videocore is Raspberries achiles heel.