Today I would like to present you another Single Board Computer called Le Potato from Libre Computer.
I funded the project through Kickstarter with 35€ and 14€ shipping cost to Germany.
The board is based on the Amlogic S905X SoC with 4 ARM Cortex-A53 cores and an ARM Mali-450 grafic chip. It supports up to 2GB DDR3 SDRAM and HDMI 2.0. You can use 4 USB 2.0 Type A and 100 MB Fast Ethernet. Among the HDMI port there is the possibility to transmit sound through the 3.5mm TRRS AV Jack. Le Potato is powered through a mirco USB port. The OS can boot from an SD Card or eMMC. Both data carrier possiblities have to be bought additionally. For more information about additional connection options I recommend to visit their website.
The following images should give some impressions of the board.
At https://www.armbian.com/lepotato/ you can find diffrent Images for the board.
I used the armbian image with a GUI (Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z) .
After downloading I put the Images on my 8 GB micro SD card through the tool Etcher.
The first boot went well. It Needs some more time the first time and I got some curios green stripes on my Monitor before the login screen was shown.
Here you can see the desktop after the first boot.
After that I installed BOINC. The benchmark result is shown in the following picture.
More couldn't be tested until now, because of a lack of time.