Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

[Klaus Küchemann]

> Am 27.03.2021 um 18:26 schrieb Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>:
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> Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? 

the simple answer is : no 
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The longer answer is :

RPI4 is the only cheap board offering 8GB RAM (for an unbeatable price),
RK3399 has a 4GB RAM-limit ( don’t misunderstand the Rock Pi N10/ 8GB , because 4GB are reserved for the NPU).

If you think something doesn’t meet your needs with the RPI4 , you can be nearly sure 
that other cheap boards also don’t for FreeBSD ( I own some others).
One limitation on the 4B is the missing PCIe- slot, which is (1x lane) available on the CM4- I/O-board,
but for the cost of the loss of USB 3.0 on the I/O-board.
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The `professional` answer is :

of course , starting @~$500-$700(without accessories like RAM etc.)
you can buy aarch64-dev-boards which completely outperform the RPI4 
in performance and connectivity ;-)

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…and last but not least…

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 the most interesting answer is :

> Am 27.03.2021 um 18:26 schrieb Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>:
> ….smoothly ….


:-)

for aarch64 : 
if you really want to be SMOOTHLY  HAPPY :-) 
: ..   buy an Apple M1 machine……..
and wait what u-boot, "vm-ware" and BSD-OSes will have 
to offer (I have "heard "something of that ) …..

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Regards

K.