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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by tmikaeld on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:18AM (#20261228)
Minimum 2x performance over previous gen(s) on every test with only ~1W extra power draw. That's seriously impressive!
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by ryuukk_ on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:21AM (#20261240)
they are better, modern, more efficient and cheaper CPUs in 2019

the fact that they decided to go with a 2015 inefficient one is kinda strange

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by gambiting on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:49AM (#20261596)
>>they are better, modern, more efficient and cheaper CPUs in 2019

Name one?

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by ac29 on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:54PM (#20265614)
They're possibly thinking about something like the Amlogic S922X. A 12nm SoC with Quad A73 and Dual A53, its definitely more modern and more efficient, though "better" is pretty subjective. As implemented in the Odroid N2 [0], its not cheaper at $79 with 4GB RAM, compared to Raspi 4's $55 (or $63 and $45 for 2GB, respectively). Hard to say if they cut the board down to remove all the things Raspi doesnt support and scaled up to Raspi scale if they could match the price. If not, it'd likely be close.

[0] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram/

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by frabert on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:43AM (#20261328)
Non if you consider the need of developing open drivers for them
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by imtringued on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:30AM (#20261510)
Modern SoCs cost more than $35.
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