Orange Pi 800 Offers the Raspberry Pi 400 Keyboard Some Fresh Competition
Orange Pi has been making single-board computers to compete with the Raspberry Pi for years, but now it's going after the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer.
As Liliputing reports(Opens in a new window), Orange Pi announced the Orange Pi 800(Opens in a new window) keyboard computer, which just like the Raspberry Pi 400, offers a complete personal computer squeezed inside a keyboard housing. All you need to do is add a display and power.
The Orange Pi 800 uses a six-core Rockchip RK3399 (dual-core ARM Cortex-A72 and quad-core Cortex-A53) complete with an ARM Mali-T860MP4 GPU, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 5.0. On the outer casing you'll find two USB 3.0 ports, a single USB 2.0 ports, MicroSD card slot, HDMI, VGA, 26-pin IO interface, a Type-C power port, combined headphone and MIC port, and a speaker. Cooling is handled using a piece of heat-conducting silicagel, so there's no fan spinning inside.
The keyboard is capable of running a couple of displays at up to 4K resolution. It includes support for Chromium OS as well as Orange Pi OS(Opens in a new window), which is based on Arch Linux. This keyboard computer should therefore work very well with other Linux distributions, especially considering the Rockchip RK3399 has been around for six years now.
Orange Pi hasn't released pricing or availability yet, but its website shows a currently dead link for the keyboard being sold via Amazon. As the Raspberry Pi 400 sells for $70 and has a very similar spec, we should expect the Orange Pi 800 to cost roughly the same when it does appear.
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