I wrote arace to cancel the AI PC Kit, got my 16gb orion a week later.
will order the AI PC kit seperate end of march/early april
Just for fun: When do you think that the Orion O6 will ship?
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nah mine was without the AI pc kit and still has not shipped (got it in december)
I guess we still have two more days⌠right? 
As i said, i dont really care too much as the current firmware status does not allow to do much with it, and you can even run into considerable issues like the person that almost burn a GPU. But, i would like to hear an update if possible.
Ordered 32GB version from Aracetech February 18, got it today February 28
Australia
No AI kit
Confirmed powered on and working via USB PD
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Orion 16gb shipped to germany from ALLNET.
Sould arrive next week.
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Order from Allnet China, Jan. 3rd to Germany, 32GB version without the dev case:
ALLNET China
Dear âŚ,
we regret to inform you that the shipment of your Orion O6 order has been delayed by another 2-3 weeks.
We just have been noticed by RADXA, that the demand was much higher than expected and the supply of new chips was delayed because of the Chinese New Year break.
We apologize for this unfortunate news - your order will be dispatched immediately after we receive the goods.
Thanks for your understanding,
-âŚ
ALLNET China
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yep just came to post same, my order was allnet 32GB Feb 6âŚ
apparently allnet was deprioritized for stock given that the one arace order(same spec) ordered Feb 9 was received by purchaser Friday⌠(or maybe allnet just sold more 32GB/64GB specâŚ)
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BTW radxa employee told me that they are SUPPOSED to come w/the acrylic case AND HS/fan when I enquired about availability of HS/fanâŚ
ALLNET confirmed this, when I asked since their page said you them if you ordered be December 30 (which is what prompted my search for a HS/fan solution and then querying radxa about just buying the official oneâŚ)
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My poll above is useless now, so Iâll close it. The good news is that the âwisdom of the crowdâ was right (maybe)! Lets try again. I do not think that there is any point in starting a new thread for such a silly topic. You know the procedure you can pick up to three dates. The idea is that different people with different life experiences will have biases towards different sets of options for different personal reasons and the âwisdom of the crowdâ predicts that with enough diverse people involved a normal distribution will occur. 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.
- 2025-03-4 (Tuesday)
- 2025-03-5 (Wednesday)
- 2025-03-6 (Thursday)
- 2025-03-7 (Friday)
- 2025-03-10 (Monday)
- 2025-03-11 (Tuesday)
- 2025-03-12 (Wednesday)
- 2025-03-13 (Thursday)
- 2025-03-14 (Friday)
- 2025-03-17 (Monday)
- 2025-03-18 (Tuesday)
- 2025-03-19 (Wednesday)
- 2025-03-20 (Thursday)
- 2025-03-21 (Friday)
- 2025-03-24 (Monday)
- 2025-03-25 (Tuesday)
- 2025-03-26 (Wednesday)
- 2025-03-27 (Thursday)
- 2025-03-28 (Friday)
- 2025-03-31 (Monday)
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Iâm limited to only 20 options in a poll, is the reason I have not included next month.
Your poll gave me an idea for âwhen you ordered/will orderâ but then people may react weird when there will be âend of 2025â option with votes.
2-3 week delay is totally understandable when there were far more orders than expected. I do not think that anyone will be waiting until the âend of 2025â for their board to ship.
We also have to remember that we are âearly adoptersâ not buyers of a daily driver product here. So I guess 2-3 weeks wonât hurt, since firm- and software development is far from done yet. Itâs just a shame that some people who would contribute to that process (not me) are waiting.
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I have strong âthe more I read, the more I postpone the orderâ feeling so I may be one of those who will get board in December 2025.
I like playing with firmware code. Current firmware code is 23MB of binary blobs even for things like NorFlash. Cix plans to upstream EDK2 in Q3 so Q4 feels like good moment for placing order.
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âŚbut half the fun is tinkering with it while its still half borkedâŚ
after everything is running fine itâs just another boring machine to nitpick on performance and whatnot, or have meaningless arguments about the best distro to run, or best DE, or whatnotâŚ
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Tinkering how to fix things which are broken in blob? I can find other, more interesting things to do. Like watching paint dry 
To be clear: I have nothing against closed source firmware (my x86-64 boxes have such) but it has to work and not have generic issues like ACPI tables errors.
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i just got that same email 
Oh well⌠if it gets later that means the software will be in a better state⌠right?
I wonder if the problems PSU not shutting down has anything to do with that, i wonder if that needs a new revision to properly fix. I mean i can understand high demand but i brought on the 26th of december⌠i find it kind of hard to belive they cant ship early orders.
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The issue I have with that is this is not marketed as a âbetaâ version of the board, or as being only for arm64 developers, itâs being marketed as the âWorldâs First Open Source Arm V9 Motherboardâ and nowhere on the Orion O6 product page is there an indication that the product isnât ready for mainstream consumers (much less a date for when that may happen).
You can only cry wolf so many times before people start ignoring bold claims like the performance and features listed on that page⌠some of which may be warranted, others maybe not.
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Yeah, you are right. But just as a reality check here, and please take my question not as offensive and with a grain of salt:
What product you got from China in the last years did not undercut the marketing language at at least 50%?
In my case it is a lot. LEDâs(bogo chip copies)? Rechargeable batteries (power cells)? Power or measuring circuits or tools/boards? PSUâs? Audio equipment like DACâs and AMPâs (SNR, output power, conformity)? opto-electronic isolators? Electric tools? Circuit cooling equipment? Cables (ratings/conformity/quality/material)? Antennaâs (SNR, gain, frequencies)?, heating/cooling stuff like grease, puttyâs, pads?, electrical mobility like e-bikes, e-scooters, e-motorcycles (power/quality/longlivety/serviceability)?..
Got âcried a wolfâ a lot, and still got this board. Like most of you too.
And the market is fine with that? Yeah! Of course. Consumers buy because of the lower prices, and the market exports 90% because the labor/R&D/production/shipping costs vs the gains are very good. And nothing really is worthy of regress because every consumer knows until now, if they donât want to help you they just donât and you can do nothing about it. And consumers buy, because being lucky means they save at least 50% of the prices compared to a buy in their own country (where a China product gets sold from a regional company for double the price).
The last chip I have seen so many hypes about, so many hopes of open source was the RK3588. Some people really invested a lot of their life-time into getting stuff done to open source it. 3 years later 20% are still not really functional without blobs, and progress died because it was used in drones in a war due to the obvious advantages and small form factor, power usage of that chip. But we all had high hopes and RK sold millions of that chip.
Humans have to rely on hope. On descent people trying to do the descent thing. On those people not getting pushed by one marketing decision they can do nothing about.
The demand on this new open source promise is so high, that my earliest January order got pushed 3 weeks due to unexpected high demand. That can tell us how much hope we all have.
Everyone who can read (on this forum here e.g.) knows the risk of this promise, the hope. In the end we still have to remind of that promise and have luck.
And sure, the marketing was lackluster, to say the least. This is not mainstream. Alder Lake N is. Or 1200-2000 bucks ARM on Windows machines are. Appleâs M. But not for a) Linux and b) for this price. Hope is, that this time it is different, better circumstances etc. Whoever really believes the marketing of a âfrom the start open source, ready for everythingâ rides his unicorn to Mars on Wednesdays.
It is still a promise and a lie. Like on 50% of every AAA game on release day. But it is a start. Also for more trust. Trust leads to sales. And the âwesternersâ respecting nod towards a CN product fulfilling to a marketing lie, maybe half a year or a year after release would lead to more sales. Itâs as simple as that - so to say a âreverse wolf cryâ. Lets hope for that.
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I got mine on Monday, today was first boot with the Debian image. As far as my expectations go, Iâm still more impressed than not. The thing works, on first boot. Of course its not end-user ready, but man, getting a screen, pretty good performance and sound via DP/HDMI is something. Will do some testing soon, after letting it settle in, understanding whatâs what, and having it mounted into a solid case with a real PSU and all that. But so far, pretty good. I will expect a bit of performance optimization along the way. The shipped product appears to be usable, first barrier passed. Who cares about marketing speak⌠which should be technically correct in the end.
anyone heard anything from allnet yet?
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Not tried, but based on the feedback here I didnât want to take the risk. However yesterday I ordered one from Arace and this morning I got the message that itâs on its way.
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Yeah i cant order from arace because my credit cards always get declined even after calling the bank so⌠Allnet is the only one that supports paypal.
And yeah, no news from allnet after the message of the 2-3 weeks delay, 3 weeks ago.
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