Last Updated on April 12, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
- Learn Embedded Systems said in his review about the Mangopi MQ-Quad that in some the MQ quat is faster than the Raspberri Pi zero 2w and also more power efficient.
- but bracka wrote in the mango pi forum:
- “It doesn’t make much sense to upgrade from a Pi with 512MB and then suck up half a gig with X Windows and stuff I don’t need”
https://forum.mangopi.org/t/debian-image-available/1979/16
- Unfortunately, we do not have yet an OS which is optimized to run on ARM based single board computers for the Mangopi MQ quat as for instance armbian.
- but we have Debian and users in the mango pi forum reported they got it to work with no major issues.
- There are two reasons to buy a Mangopi MQ-Quad instead of Raspberri Pi zero 2w
1) Availability
- user complained about the availability of the Raspberri Pi zero 2w.
- The Raspberri Pi zero 2w is currently available, but was short in the past.
- will the device be unavailable again in the future?
- from the example of the Raspberry Pi 4 we have learned that Raspberry Pi has also problem with the Raspberri Pi 4 and availability
2) Price
- Mangopi MQ-Quad is more affordable than the Raspberri Pi zero 2w