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GenBook RK3588 – Modular open-source ARM laptop with DIY expansion capabilities

by ephbit on 7/9/24, 12:18 PM with 8 comments

  • by cmrdporcupine on 7/9/24, 1:26 PM

    I really like the RK3588, I have it on a little SBC here that I'm using as a NAS, Immich photo storage, and Plex, sitting in a cigar box hooked via Ethernet to my 3gpbs fiber connection and it's been running low power with no problems for months on end no downtime, no overheating, very low idle power consumption. Much heftier I/O capability than an RPi.

    However the kernel situation wasn't great the last time I went down that path. Lots of monkey patches, shell scripts and blobs and crap to compile from scratch, old kernel versions, hardcoded virtual memory limits, etc. I haven't touched the vendor-image provided Debian since installing because I'm a bit afraid. Maybe I should poke at it again soon.

    More than a laptop what I want is this chip in a Mini-ITX format in an affordable price bracket. (There's the "Firefly" one but it's $800+ USD for the 32GB model, which is kind of insane.) It makes a great low power server.

  • by rcarmo on 7/9/24, 5:19 PM

    Nice, but I’d want it to be small and have USB-C PD charging (with DisplayPort on the same port). Nothing I buy these days has a barrel jack.

  • by ThinkBeat on 7/9/24, 1:24 PM

    Is this yet another rebranding and configuration of a generic laptop offered by a third party?