I don't use even one HDMI on RPI why second? Also, it's fricking micro-HDMI why not another TYPE-C?
Raspberry Pi 4
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#112> 4K! I'm very excited about these upgrades too (especially GigE), but as far as I can tell nothing on this news page specifies whether the Pi will also support HDR output as part of the 4K upgrade. That's most of the practical benefit of 4K - that 4K releases tend to come with HDR10 or DolbyVision support. Anyone know if we can expect HDR output to work? If I knew it supported that I'd be purchasing one right now to…
The Raspberry Pi 4 B uses ARM VideoCore IV. As far as I can find HDR will only come in the updoming VideoCore V. So no. No HDR yet.
That's really too bad. It makes the 4K support useless for building an HTPC, which is a common use for the Pi. As far as I can determine, several of their competitors already support 10bit decoding, although specifics (about stable HDR support) are sometimes hard to come by.
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#113Is it possible to obtain proprietary driver for video core (in the sake of gaining extra video performance)?
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#114Gigabit Ethernet? I'm tempted to grab a few and try running Pi-Hole for my whole organization (~1200 users) and see how that goes. :) I know you can set up Pi-Hole on Ubuntu VMs. But there's something so attractive to me about running it separate from your hypervisors and closer to the core switch on very very cheap hardware.... Been curious about Pi-Hole on my bigger work scale for a while, this may very well tip me…
It shouldn't be a problem even with older Pis. Pi-Hole only answers DNS requests, which are comparatively tiny. The actual web traffic goes through your regular layer-3 network.
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#115If Youtube hardware video decoding works smoothly on Raspbian's browser, I'll be tempted to switch.
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#116Depending on the purpose, for example if somebody just wants a compact home cloud, the Odroid HC2 could also - still - be considered: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/ - Half the RAM but double the cores. I'm waiting for some benchmarks to see if the RPi4 is faster and by how much. - Also Gigabit Ethernet and it works great. My downloads are always at 108-111MB/s for the whole transfer. - Not…
The OrangePi 3 at $40 is also pretty neat, PCIe 1x, 8GB onboard eMMC, 4x USB 3.0, Bluetooth 5, Wireless AC (pretty sure they beat Raspberry Pi to the punch on this...) and it has mainline kernel support: http://www.orangepi.org/Orange%20Pi%203/
A53 SoC, new RPi4 with A72 is going to run circles around this one.
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#117The addition of gigabit ethernet and USB 3.0 means that a Pi no longer feels like a bottleneck in one’s home network. I know that the Pi was invented as an educational product, but thanks to the Linux distribution OSMC it is commonly used as a media center for playing films, music, TV, etc. I have had gigabit internet for a few years now, and every day on average, I torrent a Blu-Ray image onto my main computer. Howe…
I imagine the wait must be agonizing! Why not just have a NFS server on your more powerful computer for the Pi to stream the file from? 100 Mbps is easily enough to stream any Bluray.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Minimum 2x performance over previous gen(s) on every test with only ~1W extra power draw. That's seriously impressive!
they are better, modern, more efficient and cheaper CPUs in 2019 the fact that they decided to go with a 2015 inefficient one is kinda strange
Non if you consider the need of developing open drivers for them
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#119RPI would be awesome for NAS if you could connect SATA somehow
I'm using an old SATA SSD with a USB3 adapter I got off ebay. Performance is significantly better than an SD card.
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#120Comparing the shipping prices across the official retailers, Chicago Electronic Distributors was the cheapest at ~$6 whereas CanaKit and Element14 were both more than $10. Also bought a USB-C charger for it since the various old phone chargers I have don't supply enough amperage to the board.