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The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been launched, despite months of tricky misdirection implying that it wouldn't be on the market until 2020. The technical specifications include two micro HDMI ports, two USB3 ports, two USB2 ports, dual band Wi-fi, Bluetooth 5, Gigabit Ethernet, and either 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of RAM. Power consumption is noticeably higher than similar earlier models and the power can be supplied over USBC.
From the spec sheet:
- Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
- 1GB ($35), 2GB ($45), or 4GB LPDDR4-2400 SDRAM ($55)
- 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 2 USB 3.0 ports; 2 USB 2.0 ports.
- Raspberry Pi standard 40 pin GPIO header (fully backwards compatible with previous boards)
- 2 × micro-HDMI ports (up to 4kp60 supported)
- 2-lane MIPI DSI display port
- 2-lane MIPI CSI camera port
- 4-pole stereo audio and composite video port
- H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)
- OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics
- Micro-SD card slot for loading operating system and data storage
- 5V DC via USB-C connector (minimum 3A*)
- 5V DC via GPIO header (minimum 3A*)
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) enabled (requires separate PoE HAT)
- Operating temperature: 0 – 50 degrees C ambient
takyon: Review at Tom's Hardware. Cons: "Key software doesn't work at launch, Poor high-res video playback". Cases for the previous Pi don't work due to the new micro-HDMI ports. Tom's measured nearly ten times better storage performance using one of the new USB 3.0 ports, and the gigabit Ethernet port can actually reach nearly 1 Gbps (943 Mbps vs. 237 Mbps for the previous model).
Also at The Verge and Ars Technica.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 24 2019, @07:04PM (2 children)
That's one way.... or, just call it cheap enough and buy as many as you need of whatever you need, plus 2 because they're cheap and you don't want to wait when you figure out a use for another one... optimizing the last 10% out of the cost might be fun, but is it a more valuable use of your time and effort than repeating "you want fries with that?" Especially in a $15/hr minimum wage state.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 24 2019, @07:17PM (1 child)
It does not take very long to figure out how to save some money here. The low price is obviously part of the attraction of RasPi, so it's better if we stay closer to that price. And if you are buying multiple units for various projects or to give to friends, family, or whomever, then those savings start to add up.
Plz think of the poor (Gaaark).
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 24 2019, @08:37PM
Definitely, if I were equipping a school with 100 copies - but, here again, the selection of which monitor to pair them with would outweigh all the cost shaving considerations on the PI side.
They make it easy enough to buy the parts ala carte.
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