Orange Pi: Raspberry Pi Clone on Allwinner

The Raspberry Pi is a miniature, energy efficient and powerful enough for its size computer with an ARM processor. This is not a gaming PC, not the most productive system among all the miniature computers. But thanks to the low price of $ 35 and the extensive functionality of the "Malinka" could become quite popular.

Fans of aileron toys, experts in the field of electronics, developers of all stripes - they all liked the "Malinka". Shortly after the launch of the Raspberry Pi, clones began to appear. Now there is a whole range of clones "Malinki", which was called Orange Pi.
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The clone size is about the same as that of the Raspberry Pi, but the configuration is different. For example, Orange Pi has a multi-core Allwinner ARMv7 installed instead of a slower Broadcomm chip with an ARM11 architecture.

The model range is represented by three different models of ARM11. Two models are based on the dual-core Allwinner A20 with ARM Mali-400 graphics, and the third is equipped with a quad-core Allwinner A31s with PowerVR SGX544MP2 graphics.

Each model is also equipped with 802.11b / g / n WiFi + Gigabit Ethernet modules, multiple USB ports, HDMI, AV and expansion slots. In addition, in the presence of 1 GB of RAM. As for the drive, its volume is different for all three models. There is a model without an internal drive, but with a microSD slot. There are models with a drive + slot for memory cards miroSD.

Accordingly, the price varies. Orange Pi starts with $ 40, and the maximum price is $ 69. The models are called Orange Pi, Orange Pi Mini, and Orange Pi Plus .

It is clear that so far neither the application ecosystem, nor the developer community like the Raspberry Pi, the Orange Pi has.