Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting lifetime of the product)
CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#12The faq about battery concerns me a bit. "Achieved about 5 hours of standby time." Reporting standby time seems like a question dodge.
I see a sleep/wake button, but my Raspi 400 has no such feature, and googling about whether this can truly be done are inconclusive. 5h standby time suggests the sleep isn't a very deep one.
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#13This was a Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745629624/cutiepi-raspb... (I am a backer, but I haven't received mine yet, so don't yet have an opinion on the product)
> EVERYTHING, from the hardware design, firmware, enclosure, all the way to the user interface, is open source.
Except VideoCore? Or has something changed?
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#14I’ve been following this project for a while. I truly hope they succeed, but as always some caution is warranted about crowdfunding projects.
They ran a Kickstarter last year with a target ship date of late November, but I’m not sure how many orders they’ve filled. None of my friends who ordered have received theirs.
Their open source repositories are available here: https://github.com/cutiepi-io
Note this isn’t a tablet in the traditional sense. Think of it as a Raspberry Pi with external touchscreen, camera, and battery folded into a tablet-like form factor. They’ve done some cool things with software and hardware to bring it all together, but it needs to be viewed as hackable open source hardware and not a competitor to a cheap Android tablet from Amazon.
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#15Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting…
Worth noting that WiFi 5 is 802.11ac, which only applies to 5Ghz; any WiFi 5 gear is using 802.11n for 2.4GHz. (Edit: Pi 4 can do 5GHz) One wonders if they skipped doing a 5GHz antenna for cost/space/other reasons.
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#16Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting…
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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#17It looks like the daughter board is bigger than the mother board (the rasp pi)
This is perfectly normal in SoM projects. Effectively the carrier board is the motherboard, and the module takes the place of a socketed CPU.
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#18> we plan to support Raspberry Pi OS desktop and apps via XWayland.
I am not familiar with the Linux Ecosystem, so I don't understand what this really means. Can someone please explain? Will any Linux apps run on it directly or do developers have to create separate apps just for the platform?
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#19Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting…
Many older Thinkpad Models still have WiFi N, it's not that bad as you describe it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> EVERYTHING, from the hardware design, firmware, enclosure, all the way to the user interface, is open source.
Except VideoCore? Or has something changed?
Everything this team produces and sells.
This team isn’t involved with the Raspberry Pi team. They’re just using it in their open source product.