The link makes it seem like crap hardware, and sure 4gb of ram is really crappy. But how does this compare with one of my kid’s Fire tablets? Does anyone have opinions on that?

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    4 months ago

    It is very low powered hardware that is old at this point. Don’t buy it.

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      4 months ago

      The hardware is not old but it is low powered. From the article: “The DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II would struggle to outperform a cheap, second-hand ARM-based Android tablet from 5 years ago.”

      The reason to buy it is not to have a tablet. It is to have an affordable RISC-V development and test machine.

      Buy it if you want to help advance RISC-V.

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        4 months ago

        I would just get a single board computer then. You could even get a desktop chip.