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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by sgnelson on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:16PM (#20268579)
IMO, at this point you're not paying so much for the pi, but rather for the community and accessories. It's the entire environment that makes the pi useful; not just the hardware.

(I speak as someone who sucks at programming and doesn't spend a 1/100th of the time learning the latest as I used too as a teen. So having the community around to help with my latest project that I need something more than a microcontroller for, is immensely worthwhile. Obviously those who don't need these types of spillovers would probably be better served with other hardware.)

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by apple4ever on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:45PM (#20268848)
Absolutely this.

I mentioned it above, but just to reiterate- there are lots of great hardware boards out there and many beat the Pi (though the 4 makes up the different finally). However, they ALL have terrible software support: old OS's, bad drivers, out of date or incomplete documentation.

The Pi community makes it worth it to stay there.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by gwilkes on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:09PM (#20269037)
To add to this, the bad software support had very real performance implications as well. I was surprised to see benchmarks where the Pi 3 dominated boards that very clearly beat it on paper
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by m463 on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:55PM (#20269389)
That said, does the pi have accelerated graphics yet? I was playing with pygame (based on SDL) and I think all the blits and other operations were in software.
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