Streakmachine
🌔🕥 4 yr via Arachis
And the Raspberry Pi 4 does look quite impressive. Really liking the native h.265 at 4K hardware decoding. 👍
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🌔🕗 4 yr via Goober BB10
Wow, 4GB, dual-display (a little excessive?), USB3... it needs 15W power instead of 5W...
@Streakmachine #rpi
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🌖🕞 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz Indeed. According to what I read, it can compete with some low-end x86 systems now.
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🌖🕓 4 yr via Beta
@33MHz I just ordered one! USB3 + decent Ethernet means a good upgrade for my NAS @Streakmachine
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🌔🕘 4 yr via 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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🌓🕢 4 yr via 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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🌔🕤 4 yr via Texnut
@doctorlinguist We can hope!
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🌔🕥 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz @Streakmachine The part I’m most excited is getting good Ethernet performance.
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🌓🕖 4 yr via 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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🌔🕘 4 yr via 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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🌔🕗 4 yr via Texnut
@anth I remember that now... USB 2 was a pretty central and large limitation.
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🌖🕓 4 yr via 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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