The RPI4 w/ 4GB RAM is going to be a very welcomed upgrade in the emulation scene. N64, PS1, Dreamcast and PSP games will run so much smoother.
Raspberry Pi 4
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4
#62It 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.
I hear you, just bought 4 rpi 3 b+ for a k8s cluster last week and this drops today. Urgh.
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#63No normal sized HDMI sucks, I don't want to buy another adapter, aside from that this looks really cool, can't wait to get one
C'mon, a mini-hdmi hdmi cable is 50kr ($5), surely you can just buy one and be done with it, no adapter needed. https://www.netonnet.se/art/ljud-och-bild/kablar/hdmi-kablar...
Sure I can just buy an adapter, but then I have to keep track of the adapter and always deal with an adapter hacking of the board making it more awkward to handle.
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#64I’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?
Cost & usability.
Raspberry pi significantly lowered the barriers to entry for cost and complexity to own a useful Linux computer. The performance for price is really impressive to the point where it seems like the rpi 4 could be a decent daily driver for most people.
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#65Anyone got some clues if this might be worth upgrading for a pure MAME gaming Pi?
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#66full specs anywhere? - VideoCore VI graphics, supporting OpenGL ES 3.x - including 3.2? GFLOPS? Does it support Android, Play Store etc?
full spec: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-4-specs-bench...
thanks to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20261084
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#67Desktop performance my behind. What's the point of all that CPU power when IO performance remains in mid 2000s territory? It takes forever to boot, any time disk access occurs everything crawls to a halt. M.2 has been around for 5+ years now and would have easily fit on this design in its short length form factor. No datasheet for the SoC either. Again. There are vastly better SBCs out there.
Vastly better hardware wise perhaps, but at least you'll be able to get a board until 2022.
Plus, the Pi 4 will have something approaching mainline kernel support and a large community of people working on it.
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#68No normal sized HDMI sucks, I don't want to buy another adapter, aside from that this looks really cool, can't wait to get one
C'mon, a mini-hdmi hdmi cable is 50kr ($5), surely you can just buy one and be done with it, no adapter needed. https://www.netonnet.se/art/ljud-och-bild/kablar/hdmi-kablar...
The cheapest maybe, but don't I need to watch for specs and DRM features and everything?
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#69FINALLY. The 4Gb of RAM will be useful for a lot of stuff for those who normally used ARM VPSes.
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#70For those building toy clusters out of Pis for fun and education that 4GB of RAM and gigabit ethernet for $55 is awesome!
Yep. Only yesterday I updated the scripts for my Pi 2 cluster (https://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster), and getting https://k3s.io running on a cluster of Pi4s seems like a good way to upgrade that.