Hello, I’m debating whether or not to purchase an LS1028A board while they’re still available at Crowd Supply. I’m looking for any feedback from folks who have experience with it. I use my system as a daily driver. I know the Rockchip offers significantly better performance, but would prefer to go with an NXP CPU.
Cheers,
Gábor
I think it depends on what your requirements for a daily driver are. I have been using the NXP i.MX 8MQ from the classic Reform as my only computer for over a year and that worked out for me. But that would not’ve worked if I had to do 3D stuff, wanted to play more fancy games or visit javascript heavy websites more regularly. I also own an LS1028A but it is currently in repair. One of the reasons why I bought the LS1028A SoM for my MNT classic Reform laptop was, that I have several projects that only utilize a single core and benefit from /tmp being mounted as a large tmpfs as they would otherwise write several GB to my SSD. So I benchmarked the runtime of the testsuite of my software mmdebstrap:
Not surprisingly the story is the other way round for compiling the Reform Debian Linux kernel:
Thank you, that does provide me with some extra data points. Is the I/O on-par given that you gave to move from NVME to SATA? I don’t have a need for gaming. But certainly web browsing and other productivity type tools.
I did some benchmarks for that back in the day:
Can you give any examples of such tools? Web browsing should work fine but expect some slowness on javascript heavy websites.
Hello,
Some examples include, OpenOffice suite, GIMP, KiCad, Jupyter notebook, GNU Plot, coding (Python, C).
I’m using the A311D with my classic Reform. The A311D is a bit faster overall than the LS1028A. I remember that with imx8mq, openoffice, gimp, gnu plot and coding in c, c++ and python worked well without problems. I have no experience with Jupyter notebooks. KiCAD though can be a pain for large files. For example, opening and browsing files like the Reform motherboard can be painfully slow on A311D.
I have a LS1028A module that I am not using, if you are worried about availability. I’m happy to sell it.
haven’t used it much, but it runs hot.
Thank you to all for the feedback! It was very insightful and helpful.
Gábor
Hello! I just sent you a note.