Let’s end Giveaway Week 2022 with a bang, and more exactly a rather powerful Rockchip RK3588 mini PC: Mekotronics R58 (mini).
The device comes with 8GB RAM and 64GB flash storage, two 8K capable HDMI 2.0 output ports, one DisplayPort output, one HDMI input, Gigabit Ethernet and WiFI 6 connectivity, as well as a few USB 3.0/2.0 ports, plus support for a SATA drive.
I reviewed the Rockchip RK3588 mini PC with Android 12 last July, and I was impressed by the CPU and GPU performance, 4K video playback capabilities, except for AV1 which was not stable at the time, and support for HDMI audio passthrough. Android 12 was quite stable at that early stage as well. Some downsides included the lack of a useful HDMI input app and USB 3.0 performance that could be improved.
I always test samples before adding them to the giveaway, and I initially thought I would have to skip the R58 as the red Power LED would just blink continuously and the system would not boot at all. But the company provided a link with the latest firmware images for the “Mekotronics R58 mini”, and I managed to reinstall the Android 12 firmware dated August 26 and see the Android launcher on my TV. If you’re not a fan of Android, Mekotronics also offers Ubuntu, Debian, and “buildroot” images for the mini PC.
The kit given away features all accessories including the remote control, the power supply, the two antennas, and various cable. I’ve just removed the batteries because of customs regulations.
To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:
- Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
- Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
- Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
- Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
- I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
- Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
- Shipping – $35 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete.
- I’ll post all prizes at the same time, around the 16th of November, except for products shipped directly by companies which will be handled separately.
- I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.
The Mekotronics R58 “mini” computer with 8GB RAM and 64GB eMMC flash, as offered here, can be purchased for $188 plus shipping.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
I did not think NanoPi R5S record of 757 entries would be beaten anytime soon, but the Mekotronics R58 managed to do that, albeit barely with 764 participants.
Let’s run Random.org one more time… and a late entry win with #761.
Congratulation Thomas! I’ll contact you by email.
Nice,
From Viet Nam
Cool. USA
Got stuff based in spec great work desktop for most people
Thanks
USA
England
Nice prize, I live in hope but never win ☹️
Awesome mini pc!!!
Canada
Nice review!
USA
Good morning!
I have several ARM computers but none with this SOC.
USA
It won’t hurt if I try. — Brazil
Puerto Rico.
Thanks you
Awesome device
Turkey
USA and thanks!
India
Cool – USA
Hi from India
Iran
Hello from Sweden
omg, I never win stuff and I’ll add this to the list lmao
United States
Looks like fun.
Would love to fiddle with this! Lithuania
Iran
Hi from Australia
Belgium. This might be the sweetest cnx giveaway ever.
Hello, Ellesse from Hong Kong
Awesome,
From Saudi Arabia
USA and thanks
USA here.
Interesting design…would love to see if there’s a suitable capture capability with one of the “distro-based” firmwares…!
USA. Interesting mini PC
Hi from IRAN
Very Nice! 👍
Feeling lucky here in Canada. 🍁😎
UK.
The RK3588 is the game changer in this spectrum of the ARM market and looks set to decimate AMLogic and co.
Hi there!
I from Vietnam
USA, Hope I win! I need something to learn docker and kube on 😎
USA
I really enjoy your focus if the sure
India
fun toy, England.
Belarus here
hi from indonesia
Nice device
Turkey
Love this site! Thanks from the United States 🙂
Australia
Hello from France.
With this product will try to yocto myself an image to be used as a multimedia station
Very cool.
Israel
United States, here
Hello from Finland!
United Kingdom
Nice device!
USA
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi
Canada
Would be very interested in winning this! This is Jan from the Netherlands
Russia
Belarus
Greetings from Romania!
Russia.
Thanks!
United States
Thank you from Brazil
Powerful device
Curacao
United States
romania 🙂
Hi from Slovenia!
USA. RK3588’s performance is phenomenal.
Russia with Hope.
Greetings from New Zealand
Poland,
I have to get my hands on one of those Rk3588, it’s so fast.
Greeting from Libya,
Nice opportunity… thanks.
Korea
Good
the Netherlands (NL)
Nice system to play around with!
Hello from France 😀
Lithuania
Hello from Germany
Bom, vamos tentar, não custa nada mesmo(Well, lets try, is free after all).
PS: Sou Brasileiro
From Brazil!
Canada
I love gadgets.
Portugal
I would like to have it!
From Italy
Nice, from UK
Canada
Austria
Thanks, Ukraine
United States
France
Good morning !
Hello from turkey
Hello all from Brazil!!!
Hi from Romania
I’ll join in as well.
United States
Geetings.
Israel
What the heck, I’ll give it a shot. David in USA.
Germany
Germany. Thanks
Germany
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Netherlands
This one I really like to test some time.
Hungary
Germany
Poland.
Good morning!
Got to be in it to win it. Hi from Australia
Serbia
Greetings from Germany!
Latvia
Latvia
Good luck for all! 🙂
Nice device. I’m still waiting for my Rock 5B.
Will I win and get that one before ?
From France
UK Checking in early Sunday
Thanks for all the great reviews! Canada says hello.
Greetings from Austria!
Hi from Austria!
Always good to go with a bang 😉
Greetings from Austria
USA!
Holy COW!
CANADA my dude. Waterloo Region representing!!!
Super kind of you, thanks buddy, even though I am new here.
One of, if not, the best offerings on the market right now!
Bulgaria
Czech Republic.
I see it can run Debian. Then this little box interested me. But three HDMI ports? I don’t have three displays to begin with 🙂
USA
Great job!
From Israel 🙂
Serbia
very nice. Lithuania
Poland
Germany
Looks nice!
France
My Pis need a new family member
Romania
I’m in. Ukraine
Greetings from Germany!
Turkey , Thanks
Italy!
Thank you from Greece
Always enjoy your articles
From usa
Would love to have one of these to play with.
From New Zealand.
USA
France!
Greetings from Czechia!
Netherlands
UK
Greetings from Spain
Send some
loveelectronics to Finland, eh!Good morning!
From Canada.
Good morning
From Canada the land of snow
Austria
South Korea
I love the webpage
Greetings from Germany!
austria, Thank you!
USA
Really cool,
from Finland
Spain, thanks Jean-Luc!
Indonesia wants one.
Thank you from Australia!
Would be nice!
France
Germany 🙂
Greetings from Bulgaria!
Sweden here! We are not many, but we deserve some representation in the raffle!
Enjoy reading your site from Canada.
That’s a great one to end on! Many thanks for the chance, from the United States.
Romania
Nice gadget
Greetings on a sunny morning, from the Netherlands.
Russia
France thanks!
Hungary. Cool mini PC
Hey from Latvia!
Cheers from Spain!
Italy
USA
Thanks for all of the reviews!
USA for edge
Germany here. Keep up the good work!
Hi from Singapore, hope I can win this!
Greetings from Finland
USA.
Thanks for all of the reviews!
USA
hi
Joining from
The Netherlands
USA
Spain
Nice size device!
Sweden
Portugal
Keep up with the good work.
Looks good for many use cases.
Hong Kong
Poland
United Kingdom
Looks interesting, the Netherlands
Brazil 🇧🇷
Poland
All best for cnx-software!
I hope to win
France
Belarus
Hello,
From Luxembourg
From New Zealand
Hi from Germany
Here goes.
Germany
The Netherlands
Poland, have a nice day
Hello from Bulgaria
Hungary, keep up the good work!
Look awesome!
Greetings from Belgium
I’m from Indonesia,
I’m excited to see Personal Computer based on ARM processors has gone this far. IMHO, Apple is the leader in this technology with it’s Ax ARMs and MacOS whereas Windows doesn’t seem to catch up with Apple. I hope Open Source OSes for ARM processor would have developed as good as it’s x86/x64 based, in terms of hardware support or hardware comapatibility
Belgium
Quita an interesting arm based pc
Serbia
Poland
USA
Cool unit for a channels dvr
Hellor from Romania
France
Nice little ARM PC
From Indonesia, for educational purposes
Poland
Looks great! From Sweden
Hi.
Seems good.
From sweden
Nice one. Hello from Japan
Hoping to win – Malaysia
Hungary
Hi from Belgium. This one giveaway is really nice!
Tom from Hong Kong
Germany, good luck!
Poland.
USA
That rk3588 is a fast little soc
Malaysia here!
Poland.
Fajny sprzęt.
Czekam na coś podobnego (gabaryty)
z Windows 98 dla fanów gier “retro”.
POLSKA 🇵🇱
UK – good luck all
Georgia 👋
United States
Thank you!
USA thank you
Poland
Thailand
Love to set this up in my camping setup running it on solar
United States
Thank you!
Hello World. I’m from Malaysia
Bulgaria, hope to be in the list of support states
Poland.
Greetings from Greece