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Slightly wary of SBCs now.

Switched from a rasp 3B+ to a Asus Tinkerboard and learned a tough lesson on the importance of eco-system.

It's more struggleboard than tinkerboard. Hours of hassles trying to get hardware acceleration to work etc.

All worked out in the end (threw Android & Kodi on it).

I use the Tinkerboard S and I absolutely love it. It’s so much faster and the dedicated EMMC storage helps a lot. Try it. The ecosystem is much better than it used to be.

>Try it.

I essentially have. If you compare the specs of the S vs non-S you'll see they basically didn't change anything. Same CPU, GPU, memory, clockspeed etc.

It's not terrible but I had somewhat naively assumed it would be a rasp-like experience but more powerful.

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