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A comment on Pi-Top 4.

Re:Pi-Top 4 by stonogo on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:44PM (#20347990)
I am extremely displeased that none of the previous Pi-Top hardware is compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi-Top team is quite unresponsive and will provide no technical details. I suspect it's because their drivers do not build on aarch64 or work with the Stretch kernel, but to find out I'll have to spend hours reverse-engineering everything.

It's a real failure in product design.

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Re:Pi-Top 4 by whywhywhywhy on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:24AM (#20353243)
It's definitely a product design failure, but is the failure on their end or the Pi Foundation's end?

Every major board revision the Foundation ships has seemingly no upgrade path, the amount of things that breaks every time they move Debian versions is unacceptable.

The real product design failure seems to be building upon the Pi at all.

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