Khadas VIM4 - Powerful Mobile Setup with iPad Pro

In this video we'll dig into the specs and features of the Khadas VIM4 and we'll see a full setup guide for using the VIM4 as a mobile companion with your iPad or Android tablet.

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00:00 - Start
00:21 - VIM4 Specs
02:11 - Pricing
02:37 - Benchmarks
06:03 - Starting OOWOW
06:49 - Starting the Hotspot
07:33 - Installing Ubuntu
08:34 - Configuring Ubuntu
09:12 - VNC Setup
11:30 - Setup VIM4 Hotspot
13:00 - Enable Wifi Scanning
15:05 - Installing Firefox
15:57 - Resolution Tweaks

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[tech_craft]

Based on comments about the price of the VIM4, I've picked up a few cheaper boards including two others from Khadas. Reviews coming soon.

[marciomaiajr]

One thing I love about your channel is that you don't waste the viewer's time. This is a 20 minute video and there's no filler. Everything is tightly packed and quickly. That's really rare in these times of "quantity over quality".

[jimbagsh]

Nice. But “Pi killer” is a little clickbait. Price puts them in totally different classes. The only positive is it is available, and the Pi isn’t

[tech_craft]

I made an error in the video - the VIM4 has 1GBit Ethernet port and _not_ a 10GBit port.

[locpham]

It took me so many hours to find a video that focus more on dev sites & remote work station like yours. Amazing vid Rob 😀. By the way, I'm also using Kitty & Doom Emacs too 😆.

[lazerusmfh]

ive used about 50 khadas boards in the last year. They're fantastic. And their Krescue system is awesome for managing images, or flashing a different OS or custom image.
Vim4 doesn't fit my use case, but its a very powerful sbc with a tiny form factor.

[nodeswitch]

Running Emacs on something called VIM? Sacrilege! (;

Really tempted to get one of these, cheers for sharing!

[nikola]

Great video!! Could you please make more of these kinds of videos? Alternatives to RPi with the iPad

[oliolihe]

Bon vidéo！Khadas VIM4, Vraiment bon ordinateur à carte unique ~

[JohnWalz]

The HDMI-in on the Vim4 is for Android TV boxes which is what the board is designed for... Allows plugging in an HDMI input signal from a TV box or Blu-ray player etc

[nasunorahl]

An active community is the most important feature a product can have.

[-u]

Prices are eye watering(... TBH CPU speed isn't going to be ant kind of noticeable thing for 90% of people, and most will prefer 4Gb option of R-Pi, Real Con and huge limiter of Pi is lack of fast internal storage. Biggest Pro: HUGE and friendly community, plus customisation options (Shields, covers etc.). I mean this Khadas SBC looks awesome and I would definitely love to play with it, but, as my R-Pi 3B+ still works perfectly as Telegram bot, SMB server for Mac Time Capsule and general NAS stuff, and Pi-Hole DNS server I just find hard to imagine where to utilize all those power in headless setup. Anyway, great video, nice to see you trying new stuff and sharing experience with us.

[sfuoncall]

I love the video, so I hate to be a nudge. But you forgot to put into the link at 10:39 for the video showing how to do an SSH tunnel on the iPad Pro.

[WanderP]

Good to know about SBC alternatives since Pis are so rarely in stock.

[TonyDaExpert]

Using a Vim3 to run an automatous robot that uses deep learning algorithms, don’t know if vim4 has the linux support yet but next year I will try to make a project with it

[rjw_irl]

With the M.2 & storage built in, this would be great stacked as a server (4 or 5 units) running k3s

[Drewofthetube]

so killin, gonna get one of these before they are $400

[wskinnyodden]

hmmm, I would specify a smaller resolution than the iPad maximum, the objective being leaving some space for host things I may need to use regarless.

[CognosSquare]

M2 benchmark would be nice. But great video.

[hyp-hop]

Tnx for a well thought out and interesting review.