Raspberry Pi foundation announces Raspberry Pi 4b

[supaflyx3]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/faster-raspberry-pi-4-promises-desktop-class-performance/

Quad-core 1.5ghz A72 cores, 4gb of ram, 1gbit ethernet, usb 3, dual mini 4k HDMI, 4k h265 decode support. :clap:

 

[Arinoth]

Hot damn, yes. I was wondering when we would find out about the Pi 4. What's really surprising is this line:

Raspberry Pi says the Pi 4 will remain in production until at least January 2026.

Surprised they plan to keep the Pi 4 in production for 7+ years.

 

[lowfat]

1GbE and USB3.0 is such a much needed upgrade.

 

[Bond007]

Thanks for posting. It could now be viable for me to recommend for more people. Desperately needed some more ram and faster interconnect. I will have to go through a few reviews.

 

[Marzipan]

is 4GB of RAM really enough though?


and what do you use for storage?

 

[lowfat]

is 4GB of RAM really enough though?


and what do you use for storage?

On my Pi2B and Pi3B+ I use SSDs via USB.

 

[Marzipan]

On my Pi2B and Pi3B+ I use SSDs via USB.

wonder how soon it will take them to put an M.2 socket on the bottom of the board for integrated storage. h34r:

 

[lowfat]

wonder how soon it will take them to put an M.2 socket on the bottom of the board for integrated storage. h34r:

Not before 2026 :haha:. And honestly it would be completely useless on something like this.

It only has a single PCIe 2.0 lane. So 500MB/s max and everything is going to be sharing it. So even if you are only going to get SATA2.0 speeds w/ an SSD its a HUGE improvement over ~20MB/s max like the previous gen boards. And those ones the NIC shared the same bus. So you are downloading from the network, your drive speed takes a hit.


EDIT: Not bad.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-4-specs-benchmarks/

 

[enaberif]

This could actually have me downgrade my HTPC to a Pi now.

 

[lowfat]

This could actually have me downgrade my HTPC to a Pi now.

No HD Netflix tho.