Description

The Odroid-XU4 is a next generation single board computer with more powerful, more energy-efficient hardware. Tellingly, it chooses to abandon copying the RPi dimensions for a marginally smaller form-factor.

This Raspberry Pi alternative boasts a Samsung Exynos 5422 (4x Cortex-A15 @ 2.0GHz and 4x Cortex-A7 @ 1.4GHz) CPU, combined with a Mali-T628 MP6 GPU and 2GB RAM. It can run various flavors of Linux, including the latest versions of Ubuntu and Android (4.4 KitKat, 5.0 Lollipop and 7.1 Nougat).

Thanks to the eMMC 5.0, USB 3.0, and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, the ODROID-XU4 has blazing fast data transfer speeds. To the general user, this equates to faster bootup, web browsing, networking, and even 3D gaming. The price is $59, but it’s still missing the WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity – they are available only as USB-dongles.