Since the Raspberry Pi was launched what seems like many moons ago now, plenty of similar tiny computer boards have hit the market, and now big-name PC vendor Asus has its own offering.
The Tinker Board has a name designed to appeal to the sort of computing hobbyists who are the target audience of Raspberry Pi-alikes – and indeed this effort is very much alike, although it beefs-up bits of the hardware (and also the price, sadly).
If you go the Asus route for your tiny computer, you’ll get a quad-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 processor backed up with a chunky 2GB of LPDDR3 system memory. (Compared to 1GB of RAM on the Pi 3 , and a 1.
