Lichee Console 4A, RISC-V mini laptop: review, benchmarks and early issues

I always liked small laptops and phones - but for some reason they fell out of favor of manufacturers (bigger is more better"). Now if one wanted to get tiny laptop - one of the few opportunities would have been to fight for old Sony UMPC's on ebay which are somewhat expensive even today. Recently Raspberry Pi/CM4-based tiny laptops started to appear - especially clockwork products are neat, but they are not foldable like a laptop. When in summer of 2023 Sipeed announced Lichee Console 4A based on RISC-V SoC - I preordered it immediately and in early January I finally received it. Results of my testing, currently uncovered issues are below.

Mikhail Svarichevsky

I want one of these.