Just for fun: When do you think that the Orion O6 will ship?

There is the idea that one person, can never predict an outcome accurately or precisely, but outsource the question to a large diverse crowd of people (“Wisdom of the crowd”) and statistically they will produce a normal distribution. I am very interested to see what the result will be.

The Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) has already started (2025-01-29) and lasts for 15 days (2025-02-13 which is a Thursday). This board is scheduled to ship sometime after that, when do you think that will be ? (I’ve removed Saturdays and Sundays because they are generally rest days in China, and most of the world). I am not asking when you think it will arrive into your hands, because that will vary depending on the shipping method you choose and where you are in the world, what I am asking is when do you think that the board will start its journey towards you. You can pick one to three dates.

  • 2025-02-14 (Friday)
  • 2025-02-17 (Monday)
  • 2025-02-18 (Tuesday)
  • 2025-02-19 (Wednesday)
  • 2025-02-20 (Thursday)
  • 2025-02-21 (Friday)
  • 2025-02-24 (Monday)
  • 2025-02-25 (Tuesday)
  • 2025-02-26 (Wednesday)
  • 2025-02-27 (Thursday)
  • 2025-02-28 (Friday)
  • 2025-03 (Sometime in March)

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Mine’s already on its way, shipped on the 27th - on the 3rd-last slide of the announcement presentation PDF it says orders received before the 31st of December would ship on or before the 27th of January (as long as you didn’t order the “AI PC” case/parts kit) and it appears they at least partially kept that promise. It’s almost disturbing how little time it’s taken since announcement, considering the usual state of things with SBC SoCs and SBCs.

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Well, the hardware is shipping while the software will take some time even if it looks quite good for this stage called ‘debug party’. I’m really hoping (for Radxa) not too many O6 early adopters becoming angry…

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I ordered from ALLNET on 27th december the 32GB version and it says “Expected shipment date End of February 2025”.

I dont care that much as i would not be able to do much with it with the early firmware / OS images.

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Oh i’m quite aware! I helped with some RK3588 mainline bringup work back when Pine64 first shipped a bunch of QuartzPro64s out to developers; multiple years later we’re only just getting functional HDMI output on mainline, and the list of things that don’t work is still longer than the list of things that do. Pretty standard state of affairs for most ARM SoCs/SBCs.

That’s why it’s so refreshing to see a SoC vendor not only commit to a full ACPI/UEFI implementation and actively upstreaming drivers/support, but actually start executing on that promise, rapidly, without just handing it over to a third party and washing their hands of it - assuming they follow through at all - like usual.

Remains to be seen if they’ll keep it up, but I’m cautiously optimistic.

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Ah OK, I missed that I must be in the second batch. I only ordered mine shortly before I made this post.

@Arace any idea when you will start shipping out Orion + AI Kit orders?:slight_smile:

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Received at Beijing yesterday, ordered from JD.com.

@Mad_ad I’ve asked their support and they said that O6 64GB (not AI Kits) would be shipped “around next week” and AI PC Kits - “around end of March”. Therefore I’ve asked them to cancel AI PC Kit from my order, as I don’t want to wait until end of March :slight_smile:

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end of March sounds really bad, shady businesspractice to say “after CNY” and ship in March

shady businesspractice to say “after CNY” and ship in March

They were saying “end of February” for AI PC Kit, but I think they are running behind the schedule…

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Has your order shipped by now? I ordered from Allnet on January 1 and haven’t heard anything more yet. The product page still says “expected to ship before the end of February.”