Review on Enhance Your Development Projects with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit (945-13450-0000-100) by Mark Greenwood

The Jetson Nano is one of the most underrated single board computers on the market. First, as a generic Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop, it's great. Yes, the image is based on an earlier LTS and not the recently released 20.04, but it's a very polished image that Nvidia provides. Even with 4GB of RAM it runs very well thanks to the right set of Nvidia drivers that offer fully accelerated composite window management and WebGL acceleration in Chromium. Nano tends to be fast when running a full-featured REAL desktop Linux distro that even the 8GB RaspberryPi 4 can't compete with. And then the main show: GPU, GPU programming toolkit, and machine Learning: It's all pre-installed and configured. What doesn't exist can be quickly added using container images. The 128 Maxwell-based Cuda cores aren't the latest generation (or even close), but they get the job done as a learning tool. The key here is that this is a standalone setup that only takes ten minutes to install and run. For the money, you can't beat it, especially as a self-paced learning tool.