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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by StudentStuff on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:13AM (#20261204)
The OrangePi 3 at $40 is also pretty neat, PCIe 1x, 8GB onboard eMMC, 4x USB 3.0, Bluetooth 5, Wireless AC (pretty sure they beat Raspberry Pi to the punch on this...) and it has mainline kernel support: http://www.orangepi.org/Orange%20Pi%203/
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by vardump on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:39AM (#20261320)
A53 SoC, new RPi4 with A72 is going to run circles around this one.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by StreamBright on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:00AM (#20274228)
Unless you are doing disk io and most of your CPU cycles spent on it.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by rubyfan on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:22AM (#20262321)
Software support is lacking in this device. No OpenGL, no retro gaming with the March 2019 images. Are you configuring yours differently?
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by StudentStuff on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:54PM (#20281475)
Old and new Mali GPUs just got mainline kernel support: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908741
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by NikkiA on Monday June 24, 2019 @10:11AM (#20263658)
The one downside to OrangePi systems is that they use a (semi-) non-standard DC connector (1.8mm I think, definitely not 2.1mm or 2.5mm though).
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by StudentStuff on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:56PM (#20281484)
I think this is to avoid the plentiful 12v adapters that use those sizes, as you could fry the board with a bad PSU. The 5v adapters that do use those more standard sizes are generally 500mA or 1A, which is enough to (unreliably) boot and run the board.
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