DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II

Published 2024-08-11
DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II review, including demos running the pre-installed Ubuntu Linux distro.

You can learn more about the DC-ROMA II on its web page here: deepcomputing.io/product/dc-roma-risc-v-laptop-ii/

Please note that the laptop shown in this video was kindly loaned for review by Deep Computing and returned a few days later. Deep Computing did not pay me in any way to make this video, and had no influence over the content except for providing answers to some questions, as indicated in the video on two occasions.

You may also be interested in my recent build of a RISC-V NAS:    • RISC-V NAS: BPI-F3 & OpenMediaVault  

And my recent “RISC-V Update 2024”:    • RISC-V 2024 Update: RISE, AI Accelera...  

All of my previous RISC-V hardware reviews are listed here: www.explainingcomputers.com/riscv_sbc_videos.html

More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
   / @explainingcomputers  

Chapters:
01:29 Mobile RISC-V
06:55 First Boot
08:43 Ubuntu
13:54 Multimedia
17:35 The Next Generation

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All Comments (21)
  • @stanpotter7764
    Can we all take a minute to appreciate how hard Chris works, not just to produce such professional and informative videos, but to react and reply to so many comments! 👏
  • @gpalmerify
    Love that this hardware dictates the OS rather than global corp dictating that YOU buy new hardware compatible with their OS.
  • @ROBLOXTHANOS
    Dropping a view/comment/like to boost the video’s consideration within the algorithm.
  • @Praxibetel-Ix
    Time to get RISC-y once again! This time on a laptop. Good morning, everyone! :)
  • @PC4USE1
    An exciting alternative to all the proprietary stuff we are stuck with these days(even on Linux). With Intel and AMD pushing 'updates' to their microarchitecture,this looks promising.
  • @420bobby69
    Hi Chris! Completely unrelated, but I just realized how awesome your video setup is. When you zoomed in on the keyboard, the micro-texture on the aluminum/plastic showed up really well even crushed by YouTube. Would be cool for doing photogrammetry or ripping textures for product modeling in Blender!
  • @louise-w54md
    This is great! There needs to be another choice for the consumer apart from the big three. I hope RISC-V soon becomes competitive in the processor market. Also, would love to see some budget Android devices on RISC-V very soon.
  • Definitely an exciting piece of hardware. I appreciate your exploration of this RISC-V laptop! RISC-V development has progressed quicker than I expected. Looking forward to your next video!
  • @spyral00
    You are the most nerdish looking dude talking about the nerdiest possible things, and I love it!
  • @Praxibetel-Ix
    I sure agree with you on how far RISC-V has come in the past few years! I just watched a laptop with RISC-V run two operating systems, two word processors, and Aisleriot Solitaire, record video from a webcam(!!!!! REALLY big deal too!), play video back, and even compile and run a C program featuring a friendly greeting from our favorite pair of scissors. :_scissors2: Computing is always full of surprises, ain't it? :)
  • @osamaanees8406
    This is beautiful. I studied RISC-V in University. Seeing it in the physical form instead of simulating it and seeing wave forms is very nice.
  • @johncundiff7075
    Good Morning Mr. Barnatt! Dealing with a hot water heater that had catastrophic failure. Was out of the house for over 2 hours and it put 2 inches (5cm) of water through our entire home. I'll have to try to find time to watch.. but we are looking at a near total loss here. I'll try to keep watching as much as I have time.
  • @LeeZhiWei8219
    Hey! Haven't been here in a while. Glad to see you on Jeff Geerling's RISC-V video, and commenting on a RISC-V video. Just RISC-V everywhere! Haha... I would definitely want to help contribute to the maturity of this platform, so I will get one of these hardware soon! Great job on this video!
  • @neurobioboy
    That is really cool to see risk V architecture being democratized like this with an affordable and decent laptop! We are living in exciting times!
  • @SecretWolfie
    FINALLY! An ARM/RISC based laptop that is not bound to Microsoft's CoPilot Plus Regime.
  • @MarcMcMillin
    it's so cool that RISC is finally getting it's time to shine in the spotlight!
  • @MisterMA77H3W
    iVe been reliably told back in the early 90s that RISC architecture will change everything
  • @janvangorp6918
    Having a Linux laptop between 4 and 600 dollars. Is for me already good news. There is the German company "tuxedo", but they are way more expensive. I have some feeling that this will become the new "thinkpad".
  • @TickledFunnyBone
    This is great that there is a complete system. Really liking the current standard of 8 cores, 8 -16gb ram and NVME. and so i agree about the so say "couple of generations away" because of graphics processing. This is a great start for sbc risc-v computing to launch mainstream.
  • @damolin77
    Christopher all I can say is your a badass. I have learned so much from you over the years thank you.