Regular readers (yes, there are some!) will know I am a big fan of the Raspberry Pi, not least due to its very low power consumption for field portable use.
So if you are also interested in these palmtop computers, with the added benefit of not running the God-awful Windows OS, then you will be interested to read this fascinating blogpost by G1KQH.
Even the old Beelink X2 featuring in that post has a 1.2GHz clock speed which, together with only 1GB RAM, puts it more-or-less on an even footing with a Raspberry Pi 3B+. That model Pi has been running amateur radio software for me for years, and one is now running a sophisticated Muon detector 24/7/365.
The basics are covered nicely in this video, which is simply downloading Armbian onto a SD card and running the cheap computer box from it:
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