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BeagleBone Green Wireless vs NanoPi M4

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When comparing BeagleBone Green Wireless vs NanoPi M4, the Slant community recommends NanoPi M4 for most people. In the question“What are the best single-board computers?” NanoPi M4 is ranked 54th while BeagleBone Green Wireless is ranked 65th.

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BeagleBone Green Wireless

NanoPi M4

Pros

Pro
Open source hardware

Schematic and board layout available at Seeed Studio's GitHub https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/beaglebone-getting-started/tree/BBGW/Docs/Hardware

Pro
BeagleBone Black compatible

Compatible with BeagleBone Black software (with the exception of HDMI and Ethernet).

Pro
WiFi and BlueTooth included

WiFi (2.4GHz b/g/n) and BlueTooth (classic and BLE) are both included.

Pro
Includes 4 USB 2.0 host ports

Pro
6 core HexaCore, compact nvme extender, 4GB RAM

Pro
Open Source

Works with mainline Linux kernel and open source Mesa Panfrost drivers.

Pro
Many ports

4 x USB3
2 x USB2 available via pins
PCI-E available via pins

Pro
Fast

Rockchip 3399 with two fast A72 cores. Good heatsink limites throttling.

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Cons

Con
No HDMI port

HDMI port is only available via an addon cape.

Con
Bleeding edge...

To have mainline kernel requires a bit of tinkering (e.g. installing Armbian). Panfrost drivers for 3d acceleration are not mature and crash sometimes...