+1 for PoE support
PoE support has always been available with a seperate PoE Hat [0], I found it to be a strange announcement.
0: https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pi-poe-switch-hat-powe...
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#12>We use a magjack that supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), and bring the relevant signals to a new 4-pin header. We will shortly launch a PoE HAT which can generate the 5V necessary to power the Raspberry Pi from the 48V PoE supply.
This is nice though I personally wish they used the same Silvertel PoE module as Arduino which you just solder onto the board. Plus their PoE hat has a spinning fan.
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#13> Here’s a long post. [...] If you don’t have time to read it all, we recommend you watch this video The video is 1 minute long. The article is ~84 lines, ~8 KB of text. Is that really long?
If you're not a native English speaker, I imagine the video may be preferable to the article.
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#14Still Ethernet via USB 2.0, which means it is not actually gigabit.
(and taking power away from the CPU).
FWIW if you need gigabit you can get it on the (now old) cubietruck 3, which is an excellent SBC and even has a SATA controller.
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#15I’ve been using Pis to stream video from webcams for various experiments and the built-in wireless on the 3 and Zero W was game changing. All the usb WiFi adapters I had tried previously were unreliable or had too much latency. Very excited to try out the improved wireless on this board
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#16PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve that. So I'm very, very excited for this.
In the blog, they mentioned the possibility of having a Pi3A too, so I look forward to that as well. The project I have has not much need for lots of USB ports and ethernet, so having to pay for and power a hub and an ethernet port only add to the power requirements with no added benefit. The Pi3A will be the prime target for me if they release it.
The only thing I wish they had is microphone input (we need the mic input for "OK Google") but I don't think it will happen, so that's one more thing on the wish list.
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#17"Just over two years ago, we released Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. This was our first 64-bit product"
Very unfortunate that their in-house developed and promoted OS ("Raspbian") only supports armv7, thus leaving the vast majority that doesn't know about the existence of (or how to use) archlinux ARM an the likes with a 32 bit os. Am I the only one that doesn't get the sense out of this here? Debian supports Aarch64 out of the box I think.
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#182GB of RAM would've been more important to me than all the listed changes.
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#19> Here’s a long post. [...] If you don’t have time to read it all, we recommend you watch this video The video is 1 minute long. The article is ~84 lines, ~8 KB of text. Is that really long?
If you're not a native English speaker, I imagine the video may be preferable to the article.
I'm not native English speaker and I always prefer text to video, so I don't have to decipher some strange accent. But other people may have different preferences.
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#20> Here’s a long post. [...] If you don’t have time to read it all, we recommend you watch this video The video is 1 minute long. The article is ~84 lines, ~8 KB of text. Is that really long?
If you're not a native English speaker, I imagine the video may be preferable to the article.
As a non-native English speaker, I doubt that. In general listening to English is quite complex for someone that has learnt English only from school; listening to a non native language (especially a quirky spelled one like English) requires quite a bit of excercise to fully understand the various accents and how the words pronounced often illogically associate with those words you've learnt from books. I personally found vastly simpler in the beginning to read text instead of listening to a native speaker talking. That's also why captions in movies help a lot someone learning the language.