Zima board positive non-review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ZdvrIMKEQ&t=120s
On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 1:13 PM Marcel Birthelmer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
