It feels like every time I get round to doing a project with a Pi they create a new one with literally no indication or advertising. Suddenly out of the blue a new one appears.
Raspberry Pi 4
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#22I’m not very familiar with the hardware here but could someone elaborate on why this seems to be such a big deal that there are four versions of the announcement trending on the first page?
It's a combination of an exciting and hugely popular device gettting a huge upgrade (RAM and networking speed has previously been really limited) and the completely suprise of the announcement: The version 4 was supposed to arrive in 2020, but apparently hardware development went quicker than expected.
(How often does this happen?)
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#23They were already the most used, it's gonna be even more so. Impressive
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#24I’m not very familiar with the hardware here but could someone elaborate on why this seems to be such a big deal that there are four versions of the announcement trending on the first page?
You can buy a pretty powerful full computer (networking, video, RAM, etc) that fits on a tiny card for $35. That makes it possible to build all sorts of fun things on next to zero budget - everything from robots to video game emulation systems and tv streaming boxes.
The previous 3 versions were already wildly popular, but there were starting to show their age and to be significantly outperformed by Nvidia's Jetson Nano. But the Jetson Nano is significantly more expensive (starting at $99). This fixes several of the performance issues people had and keeps the price at the original $35.
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#25My first reaction to the specs: Pros: + USB 3: Very nice! Finally a pocket-sized, fast USB host. + Dual HDMI: Could be useful as a projector computer. + 1.5 GHz: Good, it might be fast enough for some real work. + Gigabit Ethernet: Excellent for those using it as a NAS. + USB-C for power: Not surprising, it's the standard now. Cons: - MicroHDMI: Incompatible with the 800x480 HDMI 3.5" screen [1]. Also different again…
Just need a bigger battery. 15W is achievable. You'll add more weight obviously but you get the extras of the pi4. Tradeoff.
As for the screen you pointed to, isn't an adapter available?
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#26Has anyone had success using an ARM based system for local development in Linux?
I use a Pi3B+ for dev at home (working on nodejs, react, serverless etc). It's great.
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#27The most important change for me is finally Ethernet is not throttled through usb2
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#28My first reaction to the specs: Pros: + USB 3: Very nice! Finally a pocket-sized, fast USB host. + Dual HDMI: Could be useful as a projector computer. + 1.5 GHz: Good, it might be fast enough for some real work. + Gigabit Ethernet: Excellent for those using it as a NAS. + USB-C for power: Not surprising, it's the standard now. Cons: - MicroHDMI: Incompatible with the 800x480 HDMI 3.5" screen [1]. Also different again…
Just need a bigger battery. 15W is achievable. You'll add more weight obviously but you get the extras of the pi4. Tradeoff. As for the screen you pointed to, isn't an adapter available?
also, 15W is max power I suppose, how low can it go if you configure and use it for small tasks
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#29>Are you still using VideoCore? >Yes. VideoCore 3D is the only publicly documented 3D graphics core for ARM‑based SoCs, and we want to make Raspberry Pi more open over time, not less. This stated intention and rpi.org's actions are simply not isomorphic. If they want to make Raspberry Pi more open, firstly, why do they publish only abridged (read: fake) schematics? [1] Secondly, why was rpi.org caught adding DRM chip…
As a previous line manager one said to me “yes, and I want a pony”. That they want to be more open does not mean they are currently fully open – in fact, it requires them to not yet to be fully open. Their primary goal (last I checked) is to be cheap, being fully open is at the very best their secondary goal.
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#30What a surprise! Didn't they say RPi4 is coming next year?
> In the past, we’ve indicated 2020 as a likely introduction date for Raspberry Pi 4. We budgeted time for four silicon revisions of BCM2711 (A0, B0, C0, and C1); in comparison, we ship BCM2835C2 (the fifth revision of that design) on Raspberry Pi 1 and Zero.
> Fortunately, 2711B0 has turned out to be production-ready, which has taken roughly 9–12 months out of the schedule.