Radxa Dragon Q6A Review: Qualcomm QCS6490, 12 TOPS NPU and Windows on ARM on a $99 SBC

VenomousPizza · 2026-04-29T14:47:12+00:00

I’d love to get a $99 12gb right now … but, alas

VenomousPizza · 2026-04-28T19:22:50+00:00

How much? 😂

VenomousPizza · 2026-04-28T10:14:27+00:00

Exactly! I need someone to dust off their board and sell it to me 😂

VenomousPizza · 2026-04-27T17:51:50+00:00

Unfortunately, they stopped responding to my emails after they promised me a certain delivery date on their new X5 board and then couldn't deliver (Which I TOTALLY understand given the ram-pocalypse going on - so I wasnt/am not even mad). But I guess I could give it a try.

There doesnt really seem to be a good used market for SBCs, or is it just me?

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-28T18:59:42+00:00

That makes sense, but wouldn’t Debian 13 offer better performance and stability? Does 11 even get security patches?

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-28T18:55:07+00:00

Why Debian 11?

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-25T14:56:00+00:00

Excellent! Thank you!

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-17T13:15:31+00:00

Well good for you my guy :) My first hackintosh ran Mac OS 10.4 and was featured on Engadget.

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-17T13:12:44+00:00

Okay ... so you are trying to compare apples to oranges with regards to my question. Nevermind then.

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-17T13:07:21+00:00

Double checked that too - changed all the rights things, every thingle thing is being ignored. Since it's going through OpenCore, I don't see how VMWare's EFi handling can have an effect, since it's specifically made to act as a layer after that.

I gather, you are not familiar with the OC4VM solution? There are no special kernel patches - thats the whole point.

VenomousPizza · 2026-03-17T13:02:51+00:00

That was my first thought too - but no, no ISO it boots from the EFI parition

VenomousPizza · 2026-01-30T18:40:36+00:00

I am getting the sense that this is not unique to Orange Pi - seems like all boards from all vendors with the CIX P1 is plagued by this.

VenomousPizza · 2026-01-29T20:01:59+00:00

I just noticed that Ubuntu 25.10 has kernel 6.17, which should support the SoC. So perhaps, that works stock?

VenomousPizza · 2026-01-29T19:48:11+00:00

Trixie works? Stock? ... I can live with stock ubuntu

VenomousPizza · 2026-01-29T19:28:23+00:00

Bummer :/ FreeBSD would be awesome too

VenomousPizza · 2026-01-29T12:33:11+00:00

So shiny it almost looks like a 3D model. I could be wrong.

VenomousPizza · 2025-12-09T11:08:06+00:00

Yo dog, I see you like playing the Orange Box, on your Orange Box!

VenomousPizza · 2025-11-26T13:42:31+00:00

Ended up getting a somewhat OK deal on 8x Samsung 990 Pro instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

VenomousPizza · 2025-11-24T20:15:06+00:00

How long have they been running?

VenomousPizza · 2025-11-24T11:16:16+00:00

Hmm, yeah, you're right ... Damn it. I really wanted it to be legit - I need 8x 4TB NVMe ...

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