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New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled

posted by martyb on Thursday November 15 2018, @04:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the big-deal-in-a-small-package dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has unveiled a smaller, cheaper, lower-powered Pi 3, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+. The new model will sell for $25 USD and has lower power requirements with less RAM than the 3B+ (512 MB DDR2), only a single USB port, and no Ethernet port. However, it has the same BCM2837B0 quad core processor running at 1.4 GHz, a dual band WIFI networking, Bluetooth 4.2 Low Energy connectivity, the normal 40-pin GPIO header, and audio and video output.

OpenSource.com : New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ unveiled
TechRepublic : Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+: A closer look at the new $25 board
CNX Software : Compact Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Launched for $25

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:10PM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:10PM (#762267)

    Even with NoScript and uBlock, my 4-yr old Android tablet with 512M of RAM can barely keep 4 mostly-text tabs open.
    It's pretty amazing how wasteful modern browsers and websites are, when I see how much processing we can achieve with half that much RAM in our embedded systems.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:27PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:27PM (#762275) Journal

    Bout time to go to 16 GB minimum. Too bad prices are 200% inflated or whatever it is.

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    • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:57PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:57PM (#762292)

      while i agree its small, if you need 16gb on what is in reality an embedded board, you got some code bloat going on.

      • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday November 16 2018, @12:35AM

        by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday November 16 2018, @12:35AM (#762433) Journal

        if you need 16gb on what is in reality an embedded board, you got some code bloat going on.

        Not necessarily. There are numerous tasks that deal with very large amounts of data; having it in RAM makes a huge difference in how fast it can be processed. Some of the areas that do this include signal processing, statistical processing, various kinds of machine learning approaches, etc.

        Then there are ramdisks; sort of an intermediate means to improve efficiency.

        Small systems like the PI, given just more ram, would suddenly become very attractive for a larger set of applications.

        Doesn't hurt if you're running a desktop on them either.

        I bet we see them eventually. I'd love to have a few.