… while on the other side, we’ll find expansion headers, the power button, two USB3.0 ports, and on the right on the photo below header for the serial console and RTC battery. Looking at the board, the large Blue heatsink stands out, and on one side we have Gigabit Ethernet, a USB 2.0 port, the DC jack, a micro SD card slot, and HDMI 1.4 output… Click to Enlarge My board was also fitted with a 32GB eMMC flash module pre-loaded with a beta version of their Ubuntu 18.04 MATE image. … and a description of the board on the other side.
ODROID XU4 UBUNTU 14.04.2 HOW TO
The board itself comes with a paper showing how to get started on ODROID-XU4 on one side… Click to Enlarge List of accessories: 5V/4A power supply, acrylic enclosure and screws, the RTC battery, and a USB 3.0 to eMMC reader. I received an ODROID cardboard package with two smaller white packages, an acrylic case, and a zip bag with some accessories. Let’s have a look at the hardware kit I got first. That’s the short history of Hardkernel Exynos 5422 boards as I remember it, and that means that since 2014, or nearly 4 years so far, the company has kept updating Ubuntu and Android firmware for their board, including the just released Ubuntu 18.04 (MATE) operating system, which I’m going to test on ODROID-XU4Q sample provided by the company in this review. More recently, the company also introduced ODROID-HC1 and ODROID-MC1 solutions for respectively network storage and clusters applications. The company’s adventure with Exynos 5422 processor did not stop there, as in 2015 they released the smaller and even cheaper ($74) ODROID-XU4 board, and last year launched a fanless version of the board with ODROID-XU4Q featuring a large heatsink.
Later that year, the company released a cheaper version ($99) called ODROID-XU3 Lite, which I had the chance to review with Ubuntu 14.04 and Android 4.4.
Hardkernel released their first Samsung Exynos 5422 octa-core board in July 2014 with ODROID-XU3, which at the time was really a powerful board, but also pricey at $179.
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