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running this Bakery anyway the names aren't important what is important is that some of the raspberry pies competitors are so cool that the original name brand one may not be your best option anyway so whether you're looking for a dropin replacement something that's more performant or even if you want to save a buck I think we're going to have something to Pike your interest okay that was a labored joke just uh like this labored segue to our sponsor hetner hetner offers high performance cloud service for a great price they Now cover the east and west coast of the United States with their latest location in Hillsboro Oregon use code lt23 at the link below for €20 off before we can explore Alternatives it's worth doing a brief overview of the latest name brand SBC the Raspberry Pi 4 model B it packs a quad core ARM processor s so up to 8 gigs of memory flexible high-speed I/O and support for up to two 4K displays and it does all of this without betraying the Raspberry Pi foundation's mission of democratizing Technology by making computers affordable to everyone it starts at just $35 of course Hardware is nothing without software but the Raspberry Pi Foundation has got you covered there to with raspberry pios it's based on debb and Linux and comes bundled with a web browser development tools some educational software and a user-friendly package manager for installing additional programs most importantly it's open- source and free this has led to the proliferation of specialized versions of Raspberry Pi OS like Libra for example is designed for Media Center use while retro Pi is all about game emulation and it's also enabled the manufacturers of other pies as we'll be calling them to quickly Roll Out versions of Raspberry Pi OS for their own Hardware let's look at our first Alternatives The dropin Replacements at $55 the banana P M5 starts off strong up upgrading all of the onboard USB ports to USB 3 it has a similar amount of processing power on tap and adds an IR receiver and 16 gigs of onboard storage as an alternative to the micro SD slot unfortunately it trades away the Raspberry Pi's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth along with its dual display outputs but at least its single HDMI port is full size and still capable of 4K 60 HZ output also at $55 the ooid C4 includes the same four USB 3 ports receiver and full-sized HDMI port capable of 4K 60 it doesn't have onboard storage but it does have a connector on the bottom for an emmc module should you wish to add your own like the M5 Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities are not included but it has a slight Edge and CPU performance over the banana thanks to its higher clock speeds and included passive CPU Cooler the single micro USB port on the board is for usbg making the C4 one of the few models we tested that cannot get power via a USB connector instead it uses a DC Barrel Jack that can take anywhere from 5.5 to 12 volts DC worth noting is that the ooid is the only non- raspberry flavored Hardware that's officially supported by retropie while neither of our drop in Alternatives managed to hit the impressive $35 starting price of the Raspberry Pi 4 model B given that those are only available through scalpers for over $100 I consider 55 a win here or at least I would if I didn't know that I could go even lower at just $30 Li potato from Libra Computing is almost cheaper than actual pie like the M5 and the C4 that we just discussed it uses high efficiency ARM cores but unlike those ones they're an older design and can't run clock speeds higher to compensate hence the name this model is actually from 2017 which is why it feels a little last gen four USB ports is good USB 2.0 not so good Ethernet is good 100 megabit Ethernet not so good you get the idea it also uses micro USB instead of USBC for power and DDR 3 memory in whatever capacity you want as long as it's 2 GB lip potato was meant to take on the Raspberry Pi 3 so it's not surprising that it doesn't quite stack up against the pi 4 but still it does bring some interesting features to the table an IR receiver an emmc port for storage and it even includes a USB dongle in the Box for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth one pleasant surprise was Hardware h265 decoding at up to 4K 60 which made it stand out against the pi 3 and would help it still be servicable as a media player running something like libc or coral for just $5 more though Libra Computing also offers the Renegade given the name it is surprisingly similar to its starchy cousin though with micro USB for power but at least it trades two of those USB 2 ports for a single USB 3 and in exchange for a slightly lower clock speed it bumped bumps the RAM up to 4 gigs of ddr4 adds gigb Ethernet and even adds Hardware encoding for up to 2 h265 streams for the $5 difference from Li potato it's a pretty big upgrade though either would do you just fine as a media player the last of our lower cost options is the $35 orange Pi 3 LTS which is yet another unit that uses efficiency course with higher clock speeds on this one we've got two USB 2s and a single USB 3 we're back to using USB PC for power though with gigabit Ethernet and onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and while it uses DDR3 for its memory it's still managed solid performance and the 3 LTS even includes 8 gigs of emmc storage that comes pre-loaded with a custom Android 9 image this is the first device we've looked at though that only has the 26 pin general purpose IO header which could limit your DIY project and making matters worse it doesn't appear to be pin compatible with the first gen Raspberry Pi 2 six pin IO so you'll have to take a close look at the documentation before you plug things into it while none of these offer the whole package flexibility of the pi4 whatever it is you're trying to accomplish at least one of them should be able to get you there at the same price that is unless you're trying something really ambitious then you might need to spend a bit more at $85 the ooid N2 plus is the first model we've looked at that doesn't basically copy the Raspberry Pi form factor it's roughly twice the size of the pi4 and has a giant passive heat sink on the bottom that cools the first s so we've seen that combines both performance and efficiency cores in a 4 plus2 configuration it also has the most powerful GPU that we've seen so far by the way if you've seen our GPU plush available at LTD store.com it's adorable in addition to its excellent CPU and memory performance the N2 plus has a highquality 32-bit stereo out with better than 100 DB signal to noise ratio and less than .6% total harmonic Distortion put together with four USB 3 ports and a micro usb OTG an IR receiver and an emmc port for additional storage it's no wonder that the N2 plus is a popular option for media players and for emulation back to an almost back to an almost Raspberry Pi form factor we've got our second offering from orange piie the orange piie 5 starting at $75 you get eight ARM V2 cores again in a big little configuration and up to 32 gigs of ddr4 memory and a built-in npu for machine learning acceleration there's a ton of IO both USB 3.1 type-c and DisplayPort 1.4 are making their first appearances here and the full-sized HDMI 2.1 Port can push 8K at 60 HZ there are also enough myy connectors for another two 4K 60 displays and three cameras an m.2 slot supports NVMe ssds or Wireless modules and a 26 pin gpio rounds things out all of this comes with a fairly Hefty power draw though it requires 4 amps at 5 volts on the USBC connector so you're going to need to budget for an adequate wall wart with that said it blows away the rest of our boards in performance getting the top score in well everything and usually by a pretty good margin now I know that both of these premium pies are significantly more expensive than the pi4 model B almost to the point where including them as Alternatives could be considered kind of disingenuous but I still think they belong in our list because both were significantly better than the pi 4 in a number of ways while costing less than what scalpers are charging on eBay for freaking Pi fours now in any Roundup there's bound to be an oddball or two so meet the misses not that kind that kind back down at $60 we've got the rock Pi 4C plus which frankly we expect it to perform quite a bit better than it did combining two high performance cores the same a72 cores from the pi 4 with four High efficiency cores this is a board that we thought would be close to the original like the pi4 it has two micro HDMI ports but it can't run both of them at 4K 60 like the pi4 it has two USB 2s and two USB 3s it also includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on board and even one UPS the pi4 with a connector for an external antenna an emmc port and an m.2 slot they even colorcoded the 40 pin gpio so you don't go and plug things in where you shouldn't but ultimately The Rock pie 4C ended up getting let down by poor performance from its ddr4 memory and poor CPU performance that just couldn't quite match the four high power cores in the pi 4 at $75 the nanop m4b uses the same 2 plus4 core architecture as The Rock Pi but at higher clock speeds and in addition to its 40 pin gpio the m4b has a PCIe by2 interface that can be used for daughter boards that can add features like extra usb3 ports an NVMe SSD adapter and even a four port SATA controller that can turn it into a nice little Nas device for your home network this board also supports emmc storage though it uses a different layout from the others that we've seen so far it's got dual mppy CSI ports enabling dual cameras for robotics or AI use and even includes switchable Android ADB support but again the m4b falls short of the pi4 in CPU performance and its aging DDR3 didn't make up that lost ground making it a tough sell compared to the rest of the competition unless you really want that PCI E by2 interface next up is the seed that's with three e router its most obvious standout feature is obviously its dual network Jacks because as you no doubt guessed from the name it's meant to be used as a tiny router running something like open wrrt now it can run any OS the Raspberry Pi can and it can be used for random projects like any other board we've tested so far the rerouter even managed solid performance coming in almost identically to our pi4 which is probably because it actually is a pi4 kind of inside the casing you'll see that we have this kind of motherboard with IO ports on it and then a daughter board that is actually a Raspberry Pi compute module 4 or cm4 for short essentially it's a Raspberry Pi 4 without the physical IO and it's meant to be embedded in other devices providing the brains for things like digital signage thin clients Industrial Automation and yes routers but just like the normal pies um these are basically impossible to get right now and they want $160 for the package so it's not really a great alternative the linkstar h68 K is an interesting one though it's sort of a traveling Network Appliance media player Nas router and server all rolled into one robust little package while it too can run more general purpose operating systems it's obviously meant for networking with dual 2 and 1/2 gig land ports and then two more 1 gig land ports alongside support for Wi-Fi 6 and a basic npu for simple AI tasks with 32 gigs of emmc storage on board an SD card slot and a USBC Port you've got plenty of storage options in a device with pretty similar performance to the banana M5 or the ooid C4 but at $129 the best value argument for it is hey at least it looks a lot better than the seed router now to be clear all of these were good enough to be included we just just didn't feel that they fit in with the rest of the pi4 Alternatives as well as we might have liked as for rpix if we had to buy just one for a first SBC it's hard to say no to the orange Pi 3 LTS at 35 bucks decent overall performance plenty of wired and wireless connectivity and built-in emmc storage means you don't have to go and buy a Micro SD card on the other hand if you were already considering paying the scalper inflated prices for a Raspberry Pi 4 then our pick has got to be the orange Pi 5 at 7 bucks for the 4 Gig model it is a big jump in price from the MSRP of the pi4 but it blew away all of our other contenders in terms of performance and with the additional connectivity and expansion options over the pi 4 it seems like a no-brainer if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check out our PI KVM video where we show you how to turn a pi into a remote access KVM so you can do anything you would need to do on a remote computer even things like updating the BIOS"}