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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 insanumingenium on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:53PM (3 children)

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:53PM (#652998) Journal

    If you have malware replacing your kernel or installing modules, I don't think a wifi radio is your biggest issue, you are already pwned. Simplifying is a great message, but if an attack vector is predicated on already having total control, seems a bit like closing the barn doors after the cow has knocked over a lamp and burned Chicago to the ground.

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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Friday March 16 2018, @12:22AM (2 children)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Friday March 16 2018, @12:22AM (#653205) Journal

    Totally agree.

    But there's this thing called Defense In Depth. Even if it IS pwned, perhaps I don't want it to phone home.

    I can physically control and see where the wired connections are going. With wireless, I just have to hope the manufacturer isn't incompetent, or out to get me, or I didn't screw up my config, or the next software update doesn't silently "fix" it for me, or......... Why would I want all that additional risk and complexity for no benefit?

    • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday March 16 2018, @06:02PM (1 child)

      by insanumingenium (4824) on Friday March 16 2018, @06:02PM (#653716) Journal
      If a FW is pwned, the WAN interface would be a better way to phone home than wireless.

      I get your point, I just think you are choosing a silly mountain to die on.

      The presence or lack of a kernel driver or module is within your control, not the manufacturer. No amount of their incompetence or maliciousness on their part will make that radio work without a driver, and if you can't handle compiling a kernel and/or deleting some modules you shouldn't be rolling your own FW. Anyone who can inject that a into your kernel owns you root and stem.

      You do get a benefit from that wireless radio, subsidized hardware. You couldn't personally build a pi equivalent for the price of the pi, if you could we wouldn't be having this conversation. You may see the wireless radio as a millstone, but it is just part of what is making this hardware available to you. For its intended use case, the wifi radio is absolutely useful. And if you find it easier to put that square peg in your round hole, good for you. But arguing that the peg shouldn't have corners is silly, especially when you have the tools and techniques round out that peg yourself. No one is saying you have to buy square pegs just because they are cheap, you have my permission to buy the correct hardware for your application. Yeah that analogy got a little tenuous by the end, sue me.

      • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Friday March 16 2018, @07:01PM

        by Justin Case (4239) on Friday March 16 2018, @07:01PM (#653745) Journal

        If a FW is pwned, the WAN interface would be a better way to phone home than wireless.

        You are assuming I am going to connect any of the interfaces to a public network.

        I just think you are choosing a silly mountain to die on.

        You can think what you want, of course. All I said is this is the feature set I want. Why does everyone have to pop up and say "no you don't want that, you want this instead"? What are you, Best Buy salespeople?

        No amount of their incompetence or maliciousness on their part will make that radio work without a driver

        Perhaps you've already forgotten that Intel includes a network stack in the hardware, where you can't touch it. You can completely disable whatever networking your OS provides, but the hardware is still backdoored. Deliberately.

        Anyone who can inject that a into your kernel owns you root and stem.

        Asked and answered, your honor.