Have you looked at the zimaboard/zimablade? No idea if it meets your specs but worth a look.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 1:11 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > Chromebook: > > https://www.quantulum.co.uk/blog/linux-on-a-chromebook/ > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eric House > Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2024 10:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PLUG] Seeking something between Raspberry Pi and NUC > > I do a lot of traveling where a laptop is too much: won't fit in the > airline seats I'm willing to afford, or won't survive weeks in a bicycle > saddlebag. And so I've cobbled together a setup that lets me do > terminal-based development anywhere: Raspberry Pi 5, powered by a USB > battery pack, sits nearby. On table (or airline seat tray) sits an Android > tablet running a terminal app, and in my lap sits a keyboard. The keyboard > talks to the tablet using bluetooth, and the tablet connects to the Pi over > wifi. > > The weak link is the Pi5: I'd love to have more than 8g of RAM (to run > Android dev tools in an x86 emulator, for example) and faster/more reliable > storage than a memory card. And so my question: > > Is there a class of computers out there low-power enough to run for hours > on a USB battery pack but significantly more capable (and perhaps more > "standard", e.g. able to run GRUB2 and generic Debian) than the Raspberry > Pi 5? > > I figure a fanless and USB-C-powered NUC clone might be a starting point, > but they don't seem to exist, which has me thinking power requirements and > heat generation are still too high when using Intel chips. So maybe it has > to be ARM-based? Anyway, I figure this group will know. > > Thanks, > > --Eric House > >
