Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by mmastrac » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 2:45 AM UTC

Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed
theregister.co.uk

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 2:56 AM UTC

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Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by nathan_f77 » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 2:58 AM UTC

Awesome!! I just wish they would release one with onboard Wifi instead of ethernet. I have no statistics to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that USB Wifi adapters would be the most common accessory.

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by schappim » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 2:59 AM UTC

What's the same:

- Same form factor as the model B+ (your enclosures and daughter boards should still fit).

- Same full size HDMI port

- Same 10/100 Ethernet port

- Same CSI camera port and DSI display ports

- Same micro USB power supply connection

What has changed:

- A new turbocharged Broadcom BCM2836 900MHz quad-core system-on-chip with performance at least 6x that of the B+.

- 1GB of RAM

Source: http://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-2-...

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by wyager » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 3:01 AM UTC

I wish they would release one with DMA based gigabit Ethernet. That always seems to be the bottleneck for me.

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by ryan-allen » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 3:03 AM UTC

While a bit more expensive, I purchased a Hummingboard [1] instead of a Pi, and the performance was great! I had a NodeJS/Postgresql app running on it for kicks. I was surprised at how quick it was.

[1] http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/linux-sbc-spe...

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by seba_dos1 » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 3:04 AM UTC

The most important info is missing: does it still require a non-free blob to even just boot Linux?

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by wmf » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 3:10 AM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #7

The most important info is missing: does it still require a non-free blob to even just boot Linux?

Broadcom is still Broadcom.

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by WhitneyLand » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 3:12 AM UTC

ARMv6 still? I don't see how that's necessary to save on the BOM. I hope legacy code was not the deciding factor here.

Re: Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

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Post by AceJohnny2 » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 3:16 AM UTC

ARM11/(ARMv6)? I thought that core was a dead-end that was quickly replaced by the Cortex-A (ARMv7) series. Surprised to see ARMv6 in new hardware in this age...