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:
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: 4, Insightful) by theluggage on Monday June 24 2019, @07:21PM
A price difference of "only" $20... on a product that only costs $35!
Some people are going to buy these in quantities for education, training or embedding in products - and part of the point of the Pi is that, if you give it to a kid and they let the magic smoke out, its no big deal. The $35 price point is pretty strategically important.
If you had a limited budget to buy a "class set" for education (say) would you prefer:
1) 19 4G Pis,
b) 23 2G Pis or
c) 30 1G Pis?
Choice is good.