Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
by txdv on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:36AM
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I'm not sayings its a bad deal, I just personally hoped for usb 3.0 or sata for faster connected IO, or gigabit ethernet for faster remote IO
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You probably want a computer designed around performance instead of "community". Check out the Odroid C2. It's got a 64 bit quad core CPU (just* like the Pine and RPi3) but clocked at 2GHz. And has real gigabit. And has twice as much ram. And can drive a 4k screen comfortably. Sadly no USB3. You can get that, but in boards that cost $70.
The C2 goes on sale in like one or two days for $40. (edit: You can buy in now on HK's website.) Kind of a childish move for the RPi Foundation to be making so much noise about their new board right now, actually. (edit: Okay, benbenben makes a fair and accurate point. Several boards, including the first, have been released at the end of February.)
* Not entirely just like. It's an Amlogic chip instead of Broadcom or Allwinner. Amlogic is one of the few without blatant GPL abuse.
"Kind of a childish move for the RPi Foundation to be making so much noise about their new board right now, actually."
It's their fourth birthday, a pretty good time to release a new/updated product, no?
1st birthday?
True, my bad.
odroid? you forgot $20 shipping for $40 board.
Only if you order directly from Korea. Normally you buy from a distributor. For example, Ameridroid will be shipping the C2 on March 4th and their fee is $6.75.
The machine is also likely not fast enough to take advantage of those speeds
Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
by hatsunearu on Monday February 29, 2016 @12:59PM
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Yeah, if you run iperf3 on a raspi, it can't even saturate it's 100Mbps connection!