Developers, makers and enthusiasts searching for a
more powerful alternative to the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested
in the new FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T4 which has been specially designed to provide
a powerful Raspberry Pi alternative without the bottleneck issues. The
NanoPC-T4 include support for NVMe-linked M.2 SSDs, solving I/O bottlenecking
and offers users a SBC powered by a Rockchip RK3399.
Paired with a dual-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A72 with a
quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 in a Big.LITTLE configuration, supported by a
Mali-T864 GPU, and 4K VP9 and 10-Bit H.265/H.264 hardware video decoder, with 4
GB RAM and 16 GB of onboard storage. The NanoPC-T4 is available bundled upwith
a heatsink, radio antennas, a power adapter, and an acrylic case for US$ 119.
Officially, the NanoPC-T4 mini PC is listed as supporting Android 7.1 and
Lubuntu 16.04 with GPU and VPU acceleration.