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welcome to another video from explaining
computers.com
this time we're going to take a look at
this the mango Pi mq Pro
this is a low-cost single ball computer
with a Raspberry Pi zero form factor and
a risk 5 system on the chip
so let's go and take a closer look
right here we have our mango Pi mq Pro
which cost me 26.99 from AliExpress and
as we can see on the label this board
has got one gigabyte of memory although
there's also a 512 megabyte Ram version
available for 22.61.
so let's go inside it's a simple
unboxing we just unclip like that the
board is springing out in its
anti-static bag and under here we seem
to have a wireless antenna we've got I
think some stickers those look like down
there mango pie stickers this is clearly
a gpio header we can solder on if we
wish so let's go back to the board
itself with it out of its anti-static
bag looks to be nice and straightforward
it's really suitable we'll just go
straight in crinkle crinkle under there
we are this is the mango Pi mq Pro and
this has to be the first SBC I've ever
reviewed with a pink PCB it's very
distinctive it's very unusual isn't it
so let's bring in something that isn't
quite as unusual let's bring in a
Raspberry Pi zero W like that so we can
see that very clearly the mango Pi mq
pro has got exactly the same form factor
as a Raspberry Pi zero or indeed as here
a zero w
ow however the raspberry poly board here
like all Raspberry Pi boards has got an
arm system on a chip whereas the manga
Pi mq Pro is a risk 5 single ball
computer
specifically it's based on an
all-weather D1 system on a chip which is
the chip right there and this is a
system on the chip I have looked at on
other boards on my channel previously at
least one other board which was a this
board here this is the the site NASA
where we can see they all win the D1
down there
anyway let's go back to the manga Pi mq
Pro and it's a D1 chip down there which
is based on a single core one gigahertz
t-head c906 CPU and it's also got a g2d
2d graphics accelerator
flanking the D1 on the top of the mango
Pi we also find a Micro SD card slot and
a wireless module which offers
80211bg and N Wi-Fi as well as Bluetooth
4.2
and down here there's a related
connector for the wireless antenna we
saw earlier
also on the front edge of the board we
push it along like this we can see its
HDMI connector which appears to be gold
plated and even if it isn't it's most
certainly a mini HDMI connector rather
than micro so far more robust and the
connectors we get on many spcs these
days and the output of this socket is
rated at 1080p at 60 frames a second or
4K at 30 frames a second although given
the CPU and RAM specifications of this
board I would very much treat the mango
Pi mq Pro as a 1080p SBC
if we move along in the other direction
we find two USBC connectors one of which
is labeled as
OTG and this is used to power the board
or for USB 2 Data connectivity and then
the other connector is labeled as host
and this is definitely for a USB
two-speed data connection
finally on the top of the board right at
the end we have a camera interface in
the form of a 24-pin DVP rgm2 connector
and if you're wondering DVP refers to
the digital video Port specification
created by infinite reality whilst rgm2
is a reduced gigabit media independent
interface
if we turn the board over I'm sure it
won't mine for a second like that we can
see that underneath we've got our one
gigabyte of DDR3 RAM and we've also got
another connector this is labeled DSi
and CTP and this is for hooking up an
LCD touchscreen or other form a flat
panel display
and so there we are the mango Pi mq Pro
a very small and reasonably priced wrist
5 SBC and so I think it's now time to
find out what kind of software support
is currently available
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right I have now connected up HDMI the
wireless antenna power and to the single
USB C Port I plugged in an adapter which
is connected to a Raspberry Pi keyboard
and mouse
so let's turn on the power
and if we now cut across to the HDMI
output you can see we're booting up
Linux specifically we're booting up the
version of ambient with an xfce desktop
and given that we're running this on a
computer with a one gigahertz single
core processor and one gigabyte of ram
as I'm sure you would guess this is
going to take a while to boot
so whilst it gets on with its stuff I
thought that you know I've been testing
out various images available for the
manga Pi mq Pro some haven't booted at
all some have given me strange results
that we can see here I think this was a
version of Deep In OS for the board it
probably works fine with say an LCD
panel or accessed headlessly but it
didn't work for me over HDMI
and I've also tested out very
successfully Ubuntu server and if you
are going to try this out on the board
you have to connect to the internet
during first boot which I achieved using
a USB to ethernet adapter and with that
in place the first boot was fine and as
I've said this worked very well indeed
and continues to prove that Ubuntu is
getting good support on risk 5.
anyway we can now log in here in ambient
so I will do that
and here we are running Ambien with an
xfce desktop on this single core
low-cost risk 5 SBC I find this very
exciting
if we look in applications you'll see
that it's slightly sluggish we would
expect that a Raspberry Pi zero is also
slightly sluggish but things do work
let's bring up for example the file
manager and it'll come up we have to
will it to do so come on you can show us
what you can do
there we are I'll leave most of this in
real time so you can see how things
perform but it it is working isn't it
it's rather good and what else we got
here they've got quite a few things
pre-installed there's a mail reader
we'll come back to a web browser loads
of settings here in xfce in ambient
various accessories as well various
development tools nice to see a genie
down there
um Graphics we've got pre-installed
fancy that I'm going to try that out in
my next section of the video but we've
also got inkscape I've never run an
escape on a risk 5 platform before so
we'll try that and whilst it's coming up
it's worth pointing out this is almost
certainly the most stable desktop distro
I've tried yet on a wrist 5 SBC and this
is my fourth risk 5 SBC I've tested out
and this is good news isn't it risk 5 is
going to get there on the desktop it's
just going to take a bit of time as
developers get chance to experiment with
Hardware like this I'm talking of taking
a bit of time inkscape is also taking a
little bit but it's just getting there
now isn't it come on yes there we are
we're running Escape
I think that's really cool I think it's
it's amazing we're on a completely new
Isa and it's giving us desktop
performance I'm sure some people are
saying Chris it's not a new Isa I know
it's been around for a while but it's
new it's new to desktop Computing what
else have we got here various insert
tools you can see multimedia stuff
there's quite a lot of stuff
pre-installed we don't have an office
package but I'm sure we can live without
that or we could install one if we
wanted to we have got our system
profiler and Benchmark let's just bring
that up see if it tells us anything
exciting hopefully it will there we are
it's uh telling us exciting things let's
just move it around and uh rescale it a
bit
this isn't bad this is working okay
there we are we've got our operating
system we see we've got our single core
processor on memory
Etc can we learn more about the
processor I think we probably can yes
this is cool this is is very cool indeed
let's just continue down in system see
what else is here let's launch for
example xsce terminal there we go always
good to run up the terminal and I think
with the terminal open let's try running
H top see what's going on on the system
there we are we can see we've got our
gigabyte of memory about half used here
everything seems to be going on okay so
we'll leave that for now it's just nice
to look around doesn't see how stable
the thing is and it seems to be very
stable indeed
so let's try some really tricky stuff
which is probably unfair but we'll try
anyway let's go to the file manager and
we'll find some video clips to play and
uh here we are come on give us a fun
reminder it has we'll go to videos and
then here I put some videos same video
in different resolutions as you can see
and as you're about to discover video
playback is not spectacular Let's Play
that 480p video file
and there we are it's coming up and it's
gonna it's gonna struggle with this I
think this is the explaining computer's
title sequence but it hasn't hasn't
started playing it very much yet has it
this is not a board to play video and I
don't think this is a board for doing
lots of other things largely things that
don't involve running a desktop
operating system really but in the video
it's nice to try one out isn't it and it
gives us an idea of where rare risk 5 is
headed but as you can see the titles are
playing rather slowly here I don't think
we're going to be trying the 720p and
1080p Clips because it's not worth it
isn't it but we we can play a video just
about very slowly if you were interested
in inspecting every frame in a video
this would be perfect wouldn't it but in
other circumstances I don't think so
and the final thing we should check out
of course is web performance can we get
online and the answer is we can get
online we've got a working browser here
so we can run it up and have a look I
think it's called Dillo the Dillo web
browser there we are it comes up this is
a very
straightforward web browser should we
say so let's try to go to some page
let's try to go to uh explaining
computers.com if I can spell it
correctly I'll soon find out
did I spell it correctly
yes it seems I did and it's coming in
slightly slowly but it is coming in
there we are you see we could use it a
few years ago we'd have marveled at all
this wouldn't it it's just that today we
have such high expectation and shall we
also try to go to its own web page
and here it is arriving or something's
happened to that Graphics never mind but
things are loading in can we see stuff
yes oh look there's pictures of itself
it's always good when a computer can
load in its own web page
and so there we are this is Ambien with
xfce running on the mango Pi mq Pro
which in my view is a rather nice little
RIS 5 development board
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greetings here I am back again and I
said we would return to which is
lurking here still in the menu there it
is and what I thought we'd do is a test
comparing how long it takes to launch
the program and to apply a filter to an
image on both the mango Pi mq Pro and a
Raspberry Pi zero w
this I think is an interesting test as
both boards have a single core one
gigahertz processor which is 32-bit arm
on the pi zero W and 64-bit risk 5 on
the mango pi
and we must remember that the manga Pi
I'm using here has got one gigabyte of
ram whereas the Raspberry Pi zero W has
got 512 megabytes
so let's use the magic of filmmaking to
bring both boards up together and launch
at exactly the same moment there we
go the race is on and of course this
isn't just a test or process of power
and available memory it'll also depend
on things like the speed of the storage
system but it'll still give us an
interesting result comparing the
performance of these two boards
so let's speed on through
and here we are getting towards the end
of a test very exciting which board's
going to win and yes it's going to be
the Raspberry Pi zero W not by a lot but
it has beaten the mango Pi mq Pro here
arm has beaten risk 5.
so let's Now set things up to do our
filter test and I'm going to for this
crate on both machines a new document
and normally I use a document which is
the default of 1920x1080 but because
it'll take a while to apply this filter
on these machines I'm going to use 800
by 600 as our document size a nice
classic resolution 800 by 600 and there
we are we've now got our document on the
mango Pi mq Pro and so we'll now go to
filter up there and we're going to apply
render and lava because it's a good
filter for tests it takes quite a while
to execute and once again we'll put both
boards side by side on the screen and
start things off at the same moment in
time
there we go the race is on for a second
time and as usual we'll speed on through
till we hit a moment of most excitement
and there we are the mango Pi mq pro has
clearly won the second half of the test
this is a fantastic result for risk 5
versus Arm but we will speed on through
to let the Raspberry Pi finish
and there we are the Raspberry Pi zero W
comes in at three minutes 14 seconds
significantly slower than the mq pro on
one minute 23.
and I'm sure the extra memory on the mq
pro was greatly to its Advantage here
and I think we've shown that the earlier
test was significantly impacted by the
speed of the storage system
and overall I'm very excited by the
result of this test at the very least it
shows us it is now possible to build a
risk 5 SPC that can compete with a
similar on board at least at the level
of a Raspberry Pi zero so this for me is
very much a result to celebrate through
risk 5.
thank you
the mango pie mq Pro is a great little
single ball computer for those who want
to experiment with risk 5.
right now I've yet to locate a working
python gpio library for this board but
I'm going to keep searching because I've
got a project in mind which will use
that connectivity
but now that's it for another video if
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