The Radxa Orion O6 is the first midrange Arm ITX motherboard... but I can't recommend it. Yet.
See why here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMnCqmM-WKo
Now I postponed order even more (not because of tariffs - I live in free world, not USA).
Thanks for review!
@geerlingguy I was kinda hopeful that, someday, this would be better supported, particularly if a community could build up around it to take up some of the software slack that Radxa kinda left. I'd love to have a low power system that can run AI workloads (not just LLMs) instead of my M4 Pro Mac Mini.
But man, that tariff problem.
@geerlingguy Also the fact that marketing has been full of outright lies... "first open-source motherboard" blah blah blah with more blobs than actual code, clock and RAM bandwidth lower than advertised, close to no communication from Radxa/CIX despite there being a "debug party" thread on the forums, kernel mainlining efforts are going really slow... Hard to see how this will get better in the foreseeable future.
@geerlingguy oh boy... some people saw that coming, though i still kind of appreciate radxa trying.
@geerlingguy it’s a reflection of the reality that making hardware is difficult.
Instruction set doesn’t matter (whether it is open source, licensed or owned) it takes a lot of resources in money, employees and time
And so far only Intel, AMD and Apple have been successful in the consumer space (ignoring historical architectures) with Ampere having some success higher up
@reddpower Apparently there's more communication in the Discord, but I'm already on like 60 Discord servers, I have them all muted because my brain can't take thousand of notifications per hour :D