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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35

posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 14 2018, @11:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the raspberry-for-pi-day dept.

DannyB writes:

The Raspberry Pi Blog announces:

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is now on sale now for $35, featuring:

  • 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU
  • Dual-band 802.11ac wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.2
  • Faster Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0)
  • Power-over-Ethernet support (with separate PoE HAT)
  • Improved PXE network and USB mass-storage booting
  • Improved thermal management

Alongside a 200MHz increase in peak CPU clock frequency we have roughly three times the wired and wireless network throughput, and the ability to sustain high performance for much longer periods.

Video announcement here.

FAQs:

  • Not discontinuing earlier Raspberry Pi models
  • Raspberry Pi 1A+ continues to be the $20 entry-level "big" Raspberry Pi
  • Considering possibility of introducing a Raspberry Pi 3A+
  • CM!, CM3 and CM#L compute modules continue to be available.
  • Still using VideoCore

Now I am left to wonder how many amps the power supply wall wart needs to be.

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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:17AM (1 child)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Thursday March 15 2018, @01:17AM (#652713) Journal

    Closest I've found so far is this:

    https://corpshadow.biz/bizstore/apu-combo-kits/apu2c2-red-combo-kit.html [corpshadow.biz]

    Don't know if that meets your definition of "cheap". At $175, plus you still need to hook up some stuff, you're mighty close to the price of an entry level Winblows box.

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday March 15 2018, @07:06AM

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday March 15 2018, @07:06AM (#652812)

    The APU2 is damn nice, they run at $100-130 direct from the source depending on what features you want. They're also vastly more powerful than a Pi or anything similar, you're looking at a 1Ghz quad-core x64 CPU with 2-4GB of RAM, that was a server spec some years ago.