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I'm also waiting for a new rpi zero.
This is the death knell for x86 PCs for the consumer market. No regular user needs more than this. Developers and hardcore gamers will be the only ones left on x86. Intel will be a shadow of themselves soon. They have did such a bad job at diversifying.
Have you tried surfing the web on a Raspberry Pi 3? Even if the 4 is 3 times faster, it’ll be a frustrating experience. Additionally, once you add in all the peripherals for a laptop, the cost is much higher than if you just bought a cheap netbook. 4GB of Ram Pi 4 is $55. $30 for a decent USB C power supply and cord, plus $50 for a display, $15 for keyboard, $15 for mouse, plus $15 for a decent SD card and/or hard dr…
I didn't realize how bad it was until I tried my wife's Best Buy special instead of my supped up dev machine.
The average low end device you get at Best Buy is barely usable. You at to at least go up to mid-range to have it not suck.
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Other SBC makers don't have an issue offering full schematics, yet, due to their smaller size, have relatively more to lose from being cloned. Moreover, I hope nobody believes that a lack of full schematics is going to stop people from making clones. Schematics can be reversed with not too much effort. Due to their large audience and brand recognition, rpi actually has less to fear from clones than smaller SBC vendor…
I would buy cheaper RPi clones the same way I do with Arduino clones from China.
The only reason I would consider buying an Arduino (or similar) is for super-low-power applications.
This is the death knell for x86 PCs for the consumer market. No regular user needs more than this. Developers and hardcore gamers will be the only ones left on x86. Intel will be a shadow of themselves soon. They have did such a bad job at diversifying.
Intel NUCs are pretty neat
I was also looking on Canakit and it looks like the 4GB version is in pre-order to be delivered in mid July.
This is the death knell for x86 PCs for the consumer market. No regular user needs more than this. Developers and hardcore gamers will be the only ones left on x86. Intel will be a shadow of themselves soon. They have did such a bad job at diversifying.
Intel NUCs are pretty neat
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The USB 3.0 ports should give 100MB/s (Benchmarks show up to +300MB/s), and you can mirror two disks for RAID-1. With 4GB of RAM, you'd even be able to use ZFS.
With 4GB of RAM, you'd even be able to use ZFS. Does it use ECC memory? If not, you should not use ZFS. Without ECC memory, ZFS carries the nasty risk of writing good data with a bad checksum, leading to data loss which would not occur in other filesystems (those that do not try to correct errors on the fly like ZFS).
Assuming a memory error somewhere:
On ZFS you'd be writing bad data with a bad checksum, which would be caught by ZFS later on.
On (most) other filesystems you'd be writing bad data and no checksum, and you'd be none the wiser until garbage comes back.
It's a myth that ZFS requires ECC memory; ZFS is safer when running with ECC, but without ECC it will still save your data in a lot of places where most other filesystems won't.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/7ng231/does_a_zfs_mirr... for a bunch of links on this.
Can't wait to buy this, boot it up, play with it for four hours, then stick it in the same desk drawer with the other Pis I have bought over the years. (The upgrades look great, just my attention span is not so great)
I can relate. However these days I have found a new life for those abandoned Pis: I install Pi-Hole [1] on them and set them up for family and close friends. [1] https://pi-hole.net/
It essentially blocks tracking and advertisements on all devices, not just my computers with ad block. Just need to keep the block lists up to date every couple weeks, but it's honestly great.
No 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...
Is Wifi Antenna(Antena) part of the board? Or an external connector is used for Wifi or BT5. Cant find details in the specification.