A new rival for the Raspberry Pi has hit the market in form of NanoPi Neo Plus2. And this one is a real competitor of Pi 3 in both price and technical specifications. I do not stop asking such products as Pi competitors. Raspberry Pi has a lot of support among developers, and its competition often expires due to the lack of updating of the Linux distributions they use or the specific software. I see them more specifically as a project rather than a new development.
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NanoPi Neo Plus2 Detailed Specifications
The new NanoPi Neo Plus 2, updated by the NEO NanoPi. It is a small circuit board having the dimension of 40 × 52 mm compared to the 85 × 56 mm of the Raspberry Pi 3. But this one has similar power as on an Allwinner H5 processor of four Cortex-A53 cores. There is 1 GB RAM, 8 GB eMMC storage, 802.11 b / g / n Wifi, Bluetooth 4.0, two USB 2.0, an Ethernet, micro-USB, micro-SD card reader, and 36-pin GPIO. Also, it offers WiFi, Bluetooth, and Gigabit Ethernet connection, and has microUSB port for power and microSD slot for extended storage.
NanoPi Neo Plus2 Operating System
In Pi 3, we are available with many operating system options. In addition to Raspbian, its default operating system, you can also run Linux distributions. And you can have office, web and programming applications in NanoPi Neo Plus2. In contrast, in the NanoPi Neo Plus2 runs Ubuntu Core. That is the minimal version of this operating system but with a software library control and development kits.
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NanoPi Neo Plus2 Pricing
The design takes advantage of both sides of the PCB for making it a small electronics board. And in the operating system section, NanoPi Neo Plus 2 uses Ubuntu Core 16.04. That is the Internet version of Ubuntu things developed by Canonical. The price of this plate is 25$. So, compared with 35$ of the Raspberry Pi Model B3 it is not a bad choice for your IoT. That is because many of the competitors of the RaspBerry Pi end up being quite more expensive than it.