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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 canopic jug on Friday March 16 2018, @04:45AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 16 2018, @04:45AM (#653370) Journal

    It's about the size of a consumer ADSL router.

    APU3s are great for a specific context but miss a lot. One big problem is that there are only three Ethernet ports.

    And like a consumer ADSL router it has almost no hardware expansion capabilities. There's a nub that you can build on to add your own PCIe expansion slot, but that requires skill, effort, and knowing the right parts to get. Then once you have that, you have to build a custom enclosure otherwise cats and kids will be all over that peripheral as it sticks out of the side of the default enclosure you had to saw open.

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