Orange Pi Zero 2W - Is It Really That Good? You'll Be Surprised!

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This was a way better product than I expected, and I'm pretty damn happy with Orange Pi products (sometimes called OrangePi). The Pi Zero 3 has the same CPU but different form factor, so I likely won't try it, but from what I understand someone is going to benchmark it and add it to https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews in the near future.

Here's the benchmark results (Geekbench 6) for this SBC: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/33

The benchmarks actually show better results than an Arm Cortex-A55 in that list, but I am thinking that may be due to the heatsink? Else likely due to the LPDDR4 RAM.

It really is a shame that there is no eMMC or NVMe on this. It might be available via a custom breakout for that 24-pin FPC, but I've not seen one yet! PoE on that expansion/breakout board would be excellent too!

And as far as the size goes, I am basically arguing that;
- Stamp: eSBC (eg Mango Pi mCore, SiSpeed M1s)
- Stick: eSBC (Milk-V Duo, Pine64 Ox64, LuckFox Pico)
- Half-Card: SBC (Orange / Raspberry Pi Zero 2, Mango Pi MQ-Pro)
- Credit Card: SBC (Raxda Rock 4SE, Rasp / Orange Pi 5, Milk-V Mars)
- Compute Module: .... not sure yet. It's an SBC like those two, but it requires break-outs like eSBCs... Food for thought!

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Chapters
00:05 Intro and Overview
03:02 Looking at the Hardware
05:32 Specs at a Glance
06:02 Software Options
08:59 GPU/VPU Support (NOTE: Enable it with `orangepi-config`)
09:33 Note for Android Images
09:59 Testing Overview
10:41 Power Consumption Test
11:36 First Boot
13:18 Micro Linux (pre-flashed to SPI)
14:15 Boot to Debian on SD Card
17:02 Trying out the UI - Chrome, YouTube
19:28 Looking at the CLI and Software Specs
20:47 Temperature Test with Thermal Imaging
21:46 Second Boot - Much Faster!
23:15 Preparing to run the Benchmark
24:19 Well Done Orange Pi
25:09 Running Geekbench 6
26:40 Thank you PCBWay & Outro
27:51 Geekbench Timelapse

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