Radxa Cubie A7A--The New Standard for Affordable Edge AI Innovation

Nice board, powerfull, very good value for the money

In short I'm satisfied with my order. It was shipped without delays right after the chinese new year. The price is fair. I had no problems with import customs office. All was done automaticaly. I ordered at 16.february. But it was 1 day before foliday so I didn't expect it to be processed next 2 weeks, but I got an email about the shippment at 23.february. So I was supprissed. According the shipping info the board was sent at 4-th of march and delivered at 11-th of March. I say wonderfull. If I'll want anything else, I'll look into this store again. The board itself is not ready yet, but it's usable as a simple desktop already. GPU has no drivers now. I don't know how to test NPU. Maybe later. CPU handles KDE plasma respectfully. I expected it to be slower. Handles full HD video without issues, but keep in mind I use an old TV with 1366x768 resolution. If you've got a FHD monitor, you can have slower experience. The default resolution is FHD and the board does not detect the monitor resolution yet. The board consumes 2w Idle and I didnt see a higher power consumption than 6W. Mostly it works on 2 to 4W. The temperature sensors does not work yet so I dont have the temperature yet, but if I used it in passeve mode, the 6540B cooler is warm, bot not too hot. If you'll plug in the fan connector It'll cool down so you'll not feel any heat. At least I didn't. The fan speed regulation is not present, but It's possible to use this board with passive heat sink. I like the board a lot. 2 strong cores are handling KDE very good. It looks better then I expected. It is important to uptade system using rsetup in terminal because before I did the device consummed 2w after shutdown and the green led stayed on. After update it has shutdown normally. No leds stayed on and the power usage is 0w. So do it. The shutdown process takes about 5s. Perfect. I would prefer if I could choose my louncher I don't like KDE plasma, but I can agree that many things it does very well and it allows to costumize a workspace as you wish. But for me it has many things I don't use. I had to add virtual desktops because there is only one at first. I'm used to other shortkey functions, but I can get used to it. It is easy to configure shortkeys to whatever you want. As I already knew, the GPU is not to powerfull and it's ment for FHD resolution. It's not enough for 4K people. Overall it's great, software is a little behind, but it's already very usable. I'd like to have a minimal image, but I think I'll have to start compiling my own. I didn't do it till now. There are many things I didn't test so I can play it for long. I hope the board will last. I would buy this again. This board is really nice.