Rock Pi 4B : M.2 & USB 3.0 SBC 

Thank you for your outstanding video on RockPi 64. I appreciate your informative videos on the topic for causal enthusiasts of SBC that minimize the jargon and the detail, but contain significant and very good information on their capabilities. Please continue the excellent work you do on this channel and I am looking forward to next Sunday morning to see what topic you will cover.

Man.. I could watch SBC videos for hours! The unique variances of each model are really intriguing.

It’s no wonder that you have over 400,000 subscribers! Your presentation and video skills just keep getting better! Always look forward to Sunday morning. Thanks, Chris.

I am very grateful for everything tech/PC related videos you make. It allows someone like me who is not up-to-date on the advancement of technology and I'm amazed of the new gadgets and devices that frequently come out unaware of their releases. The method of how you explain stuff is very soothing and having a pleasant voice to listen to. I wish I've found your channel sooner. But nonetheless, thank you for all your work.

Love everything about this channel... need my self one of these mini board computers talked in here.

This seems like it would make a nice weekend project, thank you for bringing it to our attention.

I've watched a good number of your videos over the last two or three days and have to let you know I just love what you do. You have a 90s educational feel to your videos and I mean that in the most positive way. You're informative, precise and simply a joy to watch and listen to. Keep up the excellent work sir! Oh,and hello to Stanley the knife! 😁

If not for this channel I wouldn't be able to keep up with wth is going on in tech. Thanks!

Really enjoying your content! You convey the beauty of technology perfectly :)

A very impressive SBC indeed. Thank you for your detailed review!

Another video, another beer. Nearing 500k subs, amazing job!

I know it has been said but I want to see it myself thank you for all you do for us and showed us all kinds of boards and things I really appreciate it personally

I love the attention to detail and informative fun style. Keep up the great work.

Finally a board that represents 2019 nicely!

A SBC power house! I’m happy to see your back again reviewing new and exciting products. I’m impressed with this new SBC’s power and storage features. That said it’s not the best looking system when it’s parts are all installed. The type of electronices that’s best suited to be enclosed in a black box with a few RGB flashing! Great video as always Chris. Until next time ...

Not only informative, but extremely entertaining. Thank you, sir.

Another excellent video by my favorite tech expert!

I'm really loving this kit, I got the full M.2 kit and everything, the little plastic latch that grabs onto the tiny PCIE cable is super fragile, already broke it. Otherwise I'm very happy that I got Android Pie running with full DRM and Google Play Movies working, very happy.

Clicked on this video because i wanted to know what the difference between a Rock Pi 4 A and a Rock Pi 4 B was. 90 seconds in, and i now know it. Efficient. Nice work sir.

Surprised how this channel doesn't have more subscribers. Great video once again

The king of the Raspberry Pi, well done Chris. 👍

I love it when you say. "By the magic of film making"

Love the channel and the informative content, Chris. Keep up the outstanding work!

Thank you for another quality video. Love your reviews/box openings

Well done and informative. Thank you Chris!

Starts out as a single board computer, expanded out to an IBM 360 (waiting for the switchbank front, light register status and the liquid cooling)

Yet another excellent review of a single board computer. Thank you very much.

I always enjoy your videos Christopher. Many thanks.

I always love your video presentation! Always get excited when I see a new video of your in my suggested :D

Explaining Computers is the Evolution of Computer Chronicles !

I have the 'old' Radxa rock, running Ubuntu and nodeJS, nice to see they have beefed up this SBC to this new model, this is great, thanks Chris for showing.

You make an old boy smile - and give me lots of great information for which I say Thank You!

I must admit, emmc is a storage standard that's gotten by me. I've heard about it from the electronics youtubers but didn't realize what it is. Seeing it here, it seems like a good option, though it's slower than ssd. But looking at the board after it's installed, you might think it's soldered on to it (is that an advantage? ). The M.2 mounting solution is very cool. That alone makes me want this kit (like you said... Their attention to detail is very good ). Thanks for another great video Chris!

Great SBC. Few tweaks here and there like boot from NVMe, Linux of course, and here we have capable small computer. Future is in ARM CPUs technology as in the virtualization as well, on great scale. Great work Chris. Enjoyable on all scales. Thank you.

it is amazing as I have followed you for these past few years the evolution of these tiny devices as they become more powerful and useful , an enlightening program, thank you! , the future is NOW

Hello Sir, thank you very much for the explanation, I am encouraged to get one now. I really enjoy your videos, you explain everything in a clear way and very detailed as well. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

i'm a french viewer and thanks to you my good sir, I learnt a great new insult today, swine, excellent.

we gonna need a Rock pi 4 vs Raspberry Pi 4 :D !!!!

It's a shame that this shop moved out of the city, I loved to just walk in and take some network cable out if I needed one or WLAN card. These are very polite guys at allnet.

When you were adding the various parts, it started to remind me of a Meccano project. I particularly look forward to the unboxing parts so I can hear "Come out, you swine!"

"Let's go and take... a closer look..." 🖥😊👍

Guess what time it is? That's right it's accessory time... love it. Keep up the good work :-)

you remind me of the narrators from old documentaries we watched at school in the 90's. I almost put my hand up to ask a question

This video was awesome! Thank you for sharing it with us.

Yet again another great video. A very neat SBC. Packed with cool features. Sadly the version of Android looked kind of out of date. But it is only a new SBC so give it time and I am sure it will come into line with the other Android OS.

Nice board, Christopher! I just looked-up the specs for the rock chip rk3399 on Wikipedia: It has two ARM Cortex A72 cores and four ARM Cortex A53 cores. Unfortunately, the A72 allows for speculative (i.e., out-of-order) execution, so unlike the Raspberry Pi 3, it's not immune to Meltdown and Spectre. I shall get myself a RP3 for extra security for tasks such as online banking. Thank you very much for another splendid video!

I have recently purchased one of these amazing SBCs and am running it of the eMMC chip, Debian from the Radxa download site, and it positively *SCREAMS* - it is as fast as, or faster than my Lenovo Yoga 920. Unbelievable performance from this tiny little thing, and the video is smooth and no jumping. No assembly instructions came with it, so it was rather like trying to put a Leggo puzzle together. There *are* a few tricks and traps, btw. Your video was actually quite helpful. I got the PoE hat and the NVME SSD (they supplied an Acer, not a WD) and the RTC battery.

Always enjoy your videos, just brilliant!

Great video again, I really like to see these new boards, i had noticed this board as it came out, impressive little computer, good value, I like how you can get an m.2 on it and the ddr4, it's a step up from the nanopi m4, but has the same software issues. Would be nice to have a board based on a current generation phone, a good Snapdragon chip or exynos chip a make a new xu4, something to rival a low end pc arm in a very small form factor, maybe like the Nvidia shield hardware but with just a little more whoomph.

This device is amazing teacher!

Thank you! For the new review loved it.

Great video as always...and a that is a very nice board!

“...come on, peel off you swine!” Got a chuckle out of this line. :-)

Great video, thanks as always :)

Single board computers are tempting me more and more!! Mmmmm I will eventually give them a try!! Nice video!!!

Nice informative video. Love that the Rock Pi is so expandable.

Yay thanks for the vid your vids teach me something new

I love you you are not fake and not careless as 99.99% of youtubers and you own your own opinions and sold to companies, but the sad true story, this way will never increase the views nor the subscribers I salute you for huge amount of honesty and clear view of the item

As I see it, this is something I MUST buy. That's a very cool product, with everything I need for my next project.

I got this one too. The best part of this board is it uses USB-C Power Delivery adapter, you can use your smartphone/tablet charger to power it up.

It is incredible to me just how fast integration is occuring on these SBC’s. Not so long ago they were, at best, only able to manage embedded applications. Now they truely are full blow computers.

nice bit of kit that one, just one thing to note with Kernel 5.0 out in the wild ( rolling release distro's ), now is a good time for anyone to get into SBC;s RockChip especially, see here, Linux archrock 5.0.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP Thu Mar 14 18:18:57 MDT 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux Machine model: Pine64 Rock64 5.0 brought in alot of missing parts like, dw_hdmi 45056 2 dw_hdmi_i2s_audio,rockchipdrm drm_kms_helper 204800 4 dw_mipi_dsi,rockchipdrm,dw_hdmi,analogix_dp drm 507904 6 drm_kms_helper,dw_mipi_dsi,rockchipdrm,dw_hdmi,analogix_dp So I would imagine thats all your missing parts for HDMI audio and yes there is, snd_soc_hdmi_codec I would also think the RK3399 uses similar internals for hdmi/codecs etc etc as the Rock64 so kernel 5 would be a good choice to go with. The RockChip drm/dri kernel module is apparently almost ready to work with the Panfrost/Midgard Mesa module ( now mainlined ) for hardware accel for these mali gpu's.

WOW I hope the Rock Pi board keeps getting more support. That is one amazing board. Please Please run some tests on this :)

That's a great introduction to another powerful SOC, looks like has nice hardware specs but need more popularity to have some open-source platforms on same... thank you very much for introducing

Amazing that tiny thing is more powerful than anything from the 90's.

that's my Sunday afternoon sorted, just as it started hailing in London

Yay. A new SBC. Thanks Chris

It was very informative and I rather like the way of your presentation. Subbed and keep up the good work 👍

Can you make a video of this running retropie or some other frontend and playing N64 games? PCSX2 via Wine? Openelec with HEVC 10bit?

Bird bees, pistons moving up and down. There was some magical moments there

waiting for more videos to see the real performance of this board!

Very nice well explained review/demo! Thank you.

i felt like a kid in a candy store when i seen you hold 4-5 bags of tech items! which is the same as me in a candy store xD

This is really a nice SBC with all the great hardware specifications. This does have a lot of problems but this is what I would hope the Raspberry Pi 4 to fix.

A very impressive video. A+++++++++++. This SBC could be a candidate for a Rock Pi 4B-week.

Hey Christopher, Just spoke to the owner of AllNet and he said to anticipate another review on the RockPi 4. They have a new M.2 card that puts the full size heat sink in-between the RockPi and M.2 card. It looks great. Heard theyre going to have a selection of cases to boot. I ordered my RockPi on monday and should get monday. Im glad I waited to buy my M.2 car so I can buy the new one. Anyways, Im looking forward to the next review. This SBC is a great board so far as I can tell. They have great customer support and are really there for there customers. Great People!!

Your Fan Sir ❤️

I love this channel. Great videos. I heard "andriod 8.1 to 9.0 32 bit flash" has the play store app working perfect from "desktop mode" try that.

Very nice find, thank you for this video.

I can't express how amazing your videos are. Now I need to decide whether to buy Raspberry pi or the Rock pi.

It's good that it's done, keeps the technology moving, Im looking forward to the real pi4 b.

Would love a slim form factor version of this so I could squeeze it into an old netbook.

Awesome by the norm Christopher, I very much like your videos.

How great it would be to have Raspberry PI 4 having such a great specs! Two Usb3, RAM up to 4 gb, M.2 NVMe, eMMC module!

This video needs a huge side note as it's a bit misleading when it comes to software and the OS. Rock Pi boards have almost non existent software related support and a lot of the drivers only work partially or none at all. Debian that was briefly showed in the video functions very poorly on this board and has tons of problems. Including video playback from a browser which should have been shown as it's worse than Raspberry Pi by a mile. These cheap Chinese boards are made to impress and to sell quick, but will very unlikely ever have any community support or dev support to provide all the necessary drivers unlike other boards like RPI,Tinkerboard and Odroid. Having owned several of these (did you know there's over 150 SBCs out there now?) - I'd say don't choose these boards by bells and whistles especially if those bells and whistles don't work well. Choose it based on what you need. Do you need USB3.0? Odroid XU4 has one+support and drivers+great speed or wait for RPI 4 Do you need emmc? Odroid has one as well Do you need better networking? Tinkerboard Do you need something smaller? RPI 3A+ Do you need M.2? Really though? Ok then get this board I guess, but why? :D tl;dr don't buy cheap Chinese knock offs, go for quality of software and community support first. Even Tinkerboard has better support than Rock boards

I live for the Swine related banter, that's why I'm here.

Thx for another informative video.

Thanks for another great video!

Wow, they have been packing a whole lot in these Pi alternatives... pitty the OS/software support isn't quite there yet, but man, possibilities are opening for devboards.

Raspberry Pi really must include M.2 slot asap, SD card has soo many limitations, and hacking it to boot off USB is really painfull and still won't enable full potential of SSDs.

Very promising board. The indies making these boards need to form a board where they can collaborate on a specification (if they aren't already) and get an architecture set incorporating what we've witnessed across numerous product lines (PCIE, NVME; etc.) into a cohesive package so that next steps may occur. There's enough to constitute an entry level ARM PC MoBo considering my previous points and a market --they (all the sbc developers/manufacturers) really should think about picking up their heels. Linus Torvalds will agree. and anyone else looking to get into developing for the ARM architecture. Good video!

You do amazing videos! Thank u very much!

Great teaching video. If someone wants to learn from IT world, no doubt should subscribe!!

I feel like that PCIe port was designed with tiny NVMe drives like the Toshiba RC100 in mind.

Very good video, thanks for sharing!

"stanley the knife" - it's sad, but this always makes me chuckle

Could you test the real NVMe speed on this board as well as its temperature? And looking forward to your next episode. :)

It would be good if the NVMe extender board had a cut out to allow access to the GPIO pins. Either that or a right angle connector.

4K@60fps is a bold statement. It would have been nice if you could quick test it with a clip with that spec also. Good vid as always, thumbs up.

Sir Chris, Humble appreciation once again for a fantastic video. I have been busy since Mid October. Moved 160KM from Atlanta GA/USA. Finally catching up on your videos.! Your SBC videos always have my full attention. Hopefully within a week I can sit down with the 2/ Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I purchased last year. I will run home soecurity off one and Smart home off the other. would you consider a video series, SBC security, also setting up Sensors for doors, windows, motion as well as connecting to garage door opener, then managing it from SBC? (There are a few videos that touch on that "some what". However, your style of presentation and setting things up are far better than any other person could imagine to attempt to match for sure. Purchasing the sensor cards and loading firmware you need is very affordable and much cheaper than buying a finished product for each window/door/etc. I have 3 routers now. 1 for family use with computers, Ipad, Smart phones, etc. 2 routers for smart devices and security devices/wifi. One router paired into other.. That should cover inside house and full yard outside. (1 acre lot ). The last to add is fence and smart gate. That should keep me busy for the summer time! Yes, I will be purchasing the Rock4Pi, probably early 2020. Hope all is well! Have a blessed weekend! Alton