Banana Pi BPI-M7 - A thin Rockchip RK3588 SBC with dual 2.5GbE, M.2 NVMe storage, HDM 2.1, and more - CNX Software
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Banana Pi is working on the upcoming Banana Pi BPI-M7 SBC powered by Rockchip RK3588 SoC whose low profile design reminds me of boards from Khadas such as

The Banana Pi BPI-M7 single board computer is equipped with up to 32GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash, and features an M.2 2280 socket for one NVMe SSD, three display interfaces (HDMI, USB-C, MIPI DSI), two camera connectors, dual 2.5GbE, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, a few USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header for expansion.

  • StritEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    I’ve got a million keyboards, mice, monitors, cables, chargers, adapters, etc.

    Sure, you do. But people just starting likely do not. I’m thinking of the new user, not just myself.

    Hell, I bought a few Pis on sale for $5 each years ago. How is that PC going to beat five bucks, 2 watts max, for my given use-cases (things like Pi-Hole, Vaultwarden, Joplin, etc)?

    For that you don’t even need a Pi 5. You can get a cheap SBC at around $10-20 to do that work.

    Yea, to replace my Pis would be about $30 each, but they’d fit in the same place, and migration is a snap.

    And you are assuming people are only buying new boards to replace old boards.

    but you keep going on like it’s just the better device.

    “Keep going on”? I’ve mentioned it maybe 2 times, that’s hardly enough to classify it as “keep going on”.

    I just don’t believe that Raspberry Pi or SBCs are the king(s) of home servers anymore. There are a lot of cheap x86_64 based options out there. But yes, if you just upgrade from a previous generation the Pi 5 is perfect for you, even though it’s likely overkill for your use-case.