A closer look at the board
The board arrived well-packaged, just as shown in the photos. It includes a large active heatsink with multiple cooling fins to help manage and dissipate heat from the main chips, along with a big, whisper-quiet fan. It also supports PWM. Under heavy system load, the fan speeds up and can get a bit noisy, but that’s to be expected.
This time, Orange Pi got it right by designing a board with proper mounting holes, which are essential for attaching a heatsink and ensuring optimal contact for optimal heat transfer. Hopefully, future boards will also include these mounting holes. That said, we didn’t run into any cooling issues.
This is great, but i have a Orange Pi 5 Max almost a year and still there is only first versions of few images for that board and few beta on some forums. So support for that is like zero after board is released.
From my checking, the Orange Pi 5 Max supports around 3-4 distributions. There’s often a delay for new images after hardware release, but the popular RK3588 SoC has solid support. You can always upgrade your existing distribution and install a newer kernel with the latest packages. You can always switch to an RP5 that has less powerful hardware but comes with better software support.
I think this is BS, no announcements form the Orange PI, nothing on the forums.
I would definitely buy this with 32GB or 64GB, now that would be a decent platform
It’s not ready yet, but the news is reliable, and the company has also shared some updates about it.
Well, if they truly on this, this will be a great SBC, I would buy one immediately.
This should be marketed using like 5$ vouchers in ARACE, OrangePI would immediately gauge the interest and get some early revenue o produce the board