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Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

grizzles wrote: post #293

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.

> No regular user needs more than this.

These are words I've heard from arrogant techies for decades, yet they are continually surprised to find that people don't use the shit they condescendingly designed for them based on that premise.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by dotancohen »

fanf2 wrote: post #305
tmikaeld wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which means, 2 ports and two drives (not ssd) should give at least 100MB/s each. Maybe I wasn't clear enough on that. - 1Gbit ethernet - 1Gbit USB 3.0 port 1 - 1Gbit USB 3.0 Port 2 Total: 3Gbit of 4Gbit, having some margin to spare.

The Ethernet is directly connected to the SoC, it doesn't share the 4Gbit PCIe with the USB ports

On the older RPIs the ethernet was connected via the USB ports, so I understand GP's stance.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

bhouston wrote: post #332
Robotbeat wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Have you tried web surfing on a low end but modern dual core Intel laptop? It is painful as well. 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.

Shouldn't be surprising. All the developers are using 32GB 6+ core monstrosities and thinking everything is fine while doing their part to ensure that the world of computing still will continue to suck for the foreseeable future.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by nmeofthestate »

agumonkey wrote: post #282
elliotpage wrote: post #185

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)

That's why I switched to esp8266, smaller and 1$. Can fit a lot more in the same drawer.

esp32 is a great way to fill drawers as well.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

swebs wrote: post #311
tamalsaha001 wrote: post #149

How usable are these $35 - 1GB versions? I have never used one. Just curious.

Depends entirely on how you want to use it. You're not going to be opening Slack, but it's more than plenty for a KODI player, home server, VPN server, seedbox, piHole, robot controller, home automation, etc.

My god but this post says a lot about Slack doesn't it?

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by k_bx »

I wonder, can it in theory be plugged in iPad and use it as a power source and external monitor somehow? That would finally make iPad able of running Linux. I'd be able to practice my Agda on it, for example.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by jamesfmilne »

swebs wrote: post #319

Does anyone know if it can boot from USB? I know one of the last models was able to after changing some firmware settings and the Raspberry Pi foundation mentioned adding better support for that in the future. MicroSD cards are just too prone to corruption to be running your OS off of.

From the Raspberry Pi 4 Boot EEPROM readme:

"Support for these additional bootmodes will be added in the future via optional bootloader updates. The current schedule is to release PXE boot first, then USB boot."

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by jamesfmilne »

mvip wrote: post #355
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? I'm not very familiarized with this space, but couldn't you just use a low-profile USB flash drive like this [0]? [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GK9921C/

In theory, yes (but quality varies a lot on them). The point is that adding a proper eMMC would have made the device a lot more "production ready".

That's why they make the Compute Module with the option for eMMC storage.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by fsloth »

k_bx wrote: post #367

I wonder, can it in theory be plugged in iPad and use it as a power source and external monitor somehow ? That would finally make iPad able of running Linux. I'd be able to practice my Agda on it, for example.

You can use ipad to interact with linux using VNC...
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