Every mini PC, Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi and other board worth buying, with ports, storage, RAM, software support, what each is good for and prices.
10 devices
Raspberry Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Great fit
The reference board: two to three times a Pi 4, PCIe for an NVMe SSD and the best software of any SBC.
Orange Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Good
The RK3588 board with the most I/O: two 2.5 GbE ports, a full-speed NVMe slot, HDMI in and up to 32 GB.
Radxa
Electronics / GPIO:Good
An Intel N100 PC in Raspberry Pi size, with a Pi-style GPIO header driven by an RP2040.
Orange Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Good
A full RK3588 in Raspberry Pi size, with LPDDR5, 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E.
Radxa
Electronics / GPIO:Good
An RK3588 board with one of the best mainline Linux efforts among Arm SBCs.
Raspberry Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Great fit
A tiny, cheap Wi-Fi board with 512 MB: for sensors, cameras and single-purpose gadgets.
Raspberry Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Great fit
Still on sale and still enough for Home Assistant or Pi-hole, but a Pi 5 or an N150 box is better value now.
Orange Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Good
A cheap board in Pi 4 format with an NVMe slot: slower than a Pi 4, but with proper SSD storage.
Orange Pi
Electronics / GPIO:Good
A 5 cm board with Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi for very little money: Pi-hole, VPN or print server.
Other boards
Electronics / GPIO:Good
A cheap board in Pi 3 format with mainline Linux support; slow, and only 100 Mbps Ethernet.