Streakmachine
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Arachis
And the Raspberry Pi 4 does look quite impressive. Really liking the native h.265 at 4K hardware decoding. 👍
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33MHz
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4 yr
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Goober BB10
Wow, 4GB, dual-display (a little excessive?), USB3... it needs 15W power instead of 5W...
@Streakmachine
#rpi
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Streakmachine
🌖🕞
4 yr
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Arachis
@33MHz
Indeed. According to what I read, it can compete with some low-end x86 systems now.
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hutattedonmyarm
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4 yr
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Beta
@33MHz
I just ordered one! USB3 + decent Ethernet means a good upgrade for my NAS
@Streakmachine
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33MHz
🌔🕘
4 yr
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Texnut
@hutattedonmyarm
@Streakmachine
nice! I don't have an immediate use for one, but I think if my computer has died by RPi 6, I could use one... :PP
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doctorlinguist
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4 yr
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Goober Android
@33MHz
@Streakmachine
@hutattedonmyarm
I might think about one by then, but there will probably also be POWER10 systems available ...
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33MHz
🌔🕤
4 yr
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Texnut
@doctorlinguist
We can hope!
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anth
🌔🕥
4 yr
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Arachis
@33MHz
@Streakmachine
The part I’m most excited is getting good Ethernet performance.
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33MHz
🌓🕖
4 yr
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Goober BB10
@anth
@Streakmachine
didn't the RPI 3 have gigabit? I see, it was limited to 300Mbps, now full speed.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-4-specs-benchmarks/
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anth
🌔🕘
4 yr
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Arachis
@33MHz
@Streakmachine
Exactly, on all of the ones before this one, ethernet went through a USB 2 controller, so even though it was nominally gigabit on the three, you were still very limited. 300 Mbps was best-case.
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33MHz
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4 yr
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Texnut
@anth
I remember that now... USB 2 was a pretty central and large limitation.
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Streakmachine
🌖🕓
4 yr
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Arachis
@anth
@33MHz
And That was on the 3b+, if I remember correctly. The original 3b was even more constrained.
Very happy about the “proper” gigabit speeds on the new 4b!
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