Radxa Dragon Q6A--Qualcomm QCS6490 Octa-core Platform for Edge AI

Solid little computer that fits in your pocket

Nice portable system. Very powerful little processor. Great upstream Linux support (running Armbian Linux). Good sales experience, and thankful for delivery tracking.

Great purchase experience. Product, not so much

Not Araces fault at all, but the board has a lot of growing to do still. AI devel libraries and process are terrible. The latest OS build from Radxa itself does not correctly support required libraries for the AI stack, requiring a pile of workarounds, and even then the samples are OK, but to deploy your own is a huge PITA that you have to workaround, and you better have a fast desktop for the processing or dont even bother. I think the board will eventually be very good because of Qualcomm, but currently it's not worth the hassle for AI. if you just want a competent SBC, then it's fine.

Fast shipping and great price. The board still lacks some models for the NPU on qualcomm side. Very efficient and fast. Armbian is not fully working if you want to use the NPU atm, only radxa os