What's the Best "Tiny Computer" or whatever the

The Pi is the best choice not necessarily because of the hardware, but because of community support. It's easier to get stuff done on the platform where similar things have been done before.

>>59265690
If your question is phrased using the term "or whatever the Fuck they're called" then by far the best one is Raspberry Pi 3. It is pretty much the only single board computer that goes out of it's way to brand itself as a "babby's first" product, and has the community and software support to back that claim up.

Short version, if you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, get a Raspberry Pi 3.

If you do know what the fuck you're talking about, then you aren't asking which one to get, because you know what your needs are and know how to research the single board computer that suits your needs.

Pine64

>>59265690
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>>59266555
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>>59265726
This. Don't get memed to buy Orange Pi, Odroid and other crap. Community size, guides, software is much more important than speed (some of these models don't even have built-in wifi and bluetooth). I wouldn't recommend those competitors even if you weren't starting out, because they have (or will have) issues such as outdated kernels, no GPU acceleration in Linux, etc. Only in cases where you would really need more speed for specific project would I consider them, but then I'd probably get one of those Intel Atom (?) motherboards with cpu.

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>>59266982
>pic related

>>59265690
If you're making a headless NAS and know what you're doing, the RPI is a poor option because there's no SATA and ethernet & USB share hardware. Basically it's slow as shit in this application. For anything that doesn't need an attached hard drive or lots of throughput it's the best option out there. Your best bet is an RPi 3.

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>>59266555
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>>59267251
Can you recommend an SBC with SATA and gigabit ethernet? I was considering Banana Pi M3 but some people say it's an unstable piece of shit. Any alternatives?

I have to build a cluster for some processing power and I'm wondering what is the best board to get that gets me most power I can figure everything else out