Orange Pi 3

Orange Pi 3 SBC review, including demos of Android and Ubuntu operating systems. The Orange Pi 3 is a single board computer with four USB 3.0 ports, a quad core A53 CPU, and a PCIe 2.0 slot.

Note that I have no affiliation with Orange Pi, and that the board reviewed in this video was a private purchase.

My review of the Raspberry Pi 3B+ is here:

And my previous review of the Orange Pi PC is here:

#OrangePi3 #SBC #ExplainingComputers

[metalmusic]

I love Mr Scissors he is not stupid he is quiet sharp in his personality and he has a heart made of steel he is my favourite puppet🤣

[FatNorthernBigot]

It's always good to see "Mr Scissors"

[mickelodiansurname]

I have never seen such a diplomatic "avoid like the plague folks!" review in my life.

[hansfehlow]

And this is why we watch your reviews! Just the facts none of the BS. Thank you for making this video, it was enjoyable!

[stephenlittle]

Thanks for always checking on what's good and what's bad.

[shalaka]

I'm glad you suffered for us in trying to get the Orange Pi to work properly.
Your work saved us a lot of frustration if we had tried it for ourselves! Great video, as usual!!

[abitobsessed]

Thanks for pointing out the limitations of this single board computer.

[TheMacGeek]

I use the google translate app on my android phone to translate languages on my PC screen. You run the app, point the phones camera to screen, and translate Chinese (or any language) to English. Language settings were in the circle (world icon). Great videos! I love your channel. I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 3 because of your hardware reviews, and am loving it.

[AndrewAHayes]

It is, in fact, a Lemon Pi, well as far as the software goes

[elviraeloramilosic]

Hello Chris 👋🏻
I don't mind software itch/glitch on orange pi, it is amazing SBC!
Made my Sunday.
Software glitches like this just heat up my curiosity and in no time I find myself searching for OS/software problem solutions. 🤩
Mr Scissors is in good shape, as always.

[rsnyderP]

You were very kind with your review, and I did enjoy it, but working 7 hours on software is something you are never getting back! Hardware no matter what what it looks like if not accessible is paper weight!

[MrWallyGattor]

Good to see you back on the sbc's, orange pi looks nice except for the software. Looking forward to your next installment of the Raspberry Pi Devastator Robot.

[Hugatry]

Problem: Poor software support for decent hardware
Their solution: RELEASE MORE HARDWARE VERSIONS!!!

[ZombieBitesAgain]

nice unboxing and review mr. Scissors sure cut through that like butter 😀

[twmbarlwmstar]

Nice to see us back with SBC. I have a banana Pi knocking around somewhere that you have reminded me I should find a use for- when I played with it last that was let down by the software as well. The Orange Pi looks much better at a good price so I’ll order one. The Orange Pi represents great hardware value compared to the Raspberry- I built a Raspberry with a nice metal case and by the time I’d added the boards for RTC/Safe shut down/M.2/HDD/SSD it was well over £120. I was building it for a customer (as a paid hobby) but I felt it represented poor value for what it is- especially as they really wanted UPS as well which would have added another £30. That is bring it close to the cost of a cheap laptop/chromebook.

What I really want is the Latte Panda with the i3- unfortunately it is on back order (and I have stage 4/terminal cancer so long-term plans are out) and it is going to cost £400. Instead I am going to get one of these (£130 but you have to add CPU/DDR/Storage so about £450 and upwards);
I’ve built one already, it is the tiny STX form factor and is interesting because of the AMD chipset, or rather lack of chipset. Most of the chipset duties are carried out by the AMD CPU, which are restricted to the new Athlon/Ryzen G CPUs for this A300 ‘chipset’. This means that there isn’t a PCIe discrete graphics option on the board (As-Rock are the only manufacturer, they do have another model, currently unavailable that does have PCIe added back in but I’m not sure how they did that or if AMD will allow them to do it again)- however I am going to try a M.2 to PCIe 8 adaptor to run a 1050Ti I have knocking around- PCie 8 won’t hit performance despite not being PCI 16, maybe 7% that is all. I’m waiting on the adaptor to come from the USA. These adaptors need careful choice, there are plenty about but most are low quality and were a result of the bit mining craze. I’m lead to believe what I have ordered is good quality. If it doesn’t work I haven’t spent much, the A300 can be built into a system and sold on, the same with the 1050Ti, and the adaptor cost me less than £15.

[srtcsb]

OK, well... The least the Orange Pi people can do at this point is offer a "build your own (Linux based) OS" kit for their sbc's. The hardware looks quite good, but if they have any ideas about the software, now's the time to share those ideas, and guide us into how it would all work. Think of it as the old "Linux From Scratch" project, with specific hardware goals. These guys don't seem to have much else going on this platform, so why not? Thanks for another great video Chris. Please continue to keep us posted on the sbc updates/upgrades.

[gravelyetigravelyeti]

great to see mr scissors in action again, iv'e found retrorange pi works really well for game emulation on these boards. thanks for another great review

[AndrewGulak]

You really crushed my hopes and dreams for making this my bedroom 4K media player! As you were going through the stats, I was like, yeah, YEAH go on, go on! But when that thing folded up like a cheap suit on the test video all that fell apart. You spent 7 or 8 HOURS and were able to get one os to boot? Gah!

[kirknelson]

i don't know when you filmed this but for about a week i was having a terrible time with youtube, all videos were struggling to even get 480p, for me this seems to have been fixed 1 or 2 days ago. I'm not sure what the problem was, but using a VPN improved it greatly, today its playing just fine without using the vpn.

[MultiGood]

Thanks for a video for comparison...I think about software optimisation, RPi should be the best choice. Anyway more developers would use RPi.