• Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache
  • VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2
  • Dual 4Kp60 HDMI® display output with HDR support 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
  • LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (4GB and 8GB SKUs available at launch)
  • Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi®
  • Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
  • microSD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode
  • 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation
  • 2 × USB 2.0 ports
  • Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE+ HAT)
  • 2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers
  • PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)
  • 5V/5A DC power via USB-C, with Power Delivery support
  • Raspberry Pi standard 40-pin header
  • Real-time clock (RTC), powered from external battery
  • Power button
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    Man I just want to actually be able to buy a Pi 4 at non-scalper rates.

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      Theres a bunch available in the US/Canadathis week (all week, for the first time in a very long time). Not available everywhere, but the major Pi distributors have pretty much all had some - all the pi 4 models, too.

      The drought has been easing up for a while and has been nearly over in Europe for several months. It looks like it may just about be over in NA too.

      If you’re in other countries I guess maybe it’s still pretty dry.

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      I didn’t think they were that hard to find at the moment, I saw 5 or 6 CanaKits in Best Buy last week.

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            Is that a bad thing? I’m brand new to the RPi world (as in, I just discovered I may want one two days ago) so I’m not sure if one model is better for certain things or are they just incrementally improved from one generation to the next. I am not tech savvy so I couldn’t answer that by looking at specs.

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              Pretty much just incremental improvements. Faster processor, more RAM, slightly better peripherals (like faster ethernet or newer wifi specs), but essentially they’re all the same thing.

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              It’s not bad, just more expensive and more powerful, so it would be overkill for certain projects. If you want a cheaper or smaller (but less powerful) option, you’d have to get it from somewhere else.

              If you want to use it for emulating games for example, you’d probably want the best performance you can get. If you’re just making a digital picture frame though, you don’t need to spend the extra money for a Pi 4 and can get away with the cheaper models.

              I’d recommend looking up what you want to do and seeing what model Pi other people have used. I use a Pi 3 to control my 3D printer, which isn’t too demanding of a task for it.

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                I guess that makes sense. I’m looking to set up a jellyfin server for myself and a few friends so I think I’ll need a bit more performance but I’m sure I can do that with older models as long as they’re equipped with the 8g of ram.

                Thanks for the response!

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              Depends. Most of my Pi’s are 3 or under, and they’re doing mundane tasks like printserver or VPN. This takes little power or speed. I did use a pi B+ with Kodi and that tended to choke up occasionally, I think mostly due to heat though even after applying heat sinks. The 4 and 5 should handle that job a lot better.

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    1 year ago

    Out of context, “a power button” is really funny to see advertised as a feature.

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    Hopefully they can address the stock issues but I’m not holding my breath. Would’ve also liked to see full-sized HDMI.

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      Was the 4 difficult to obtain when it was released? Cause the vendor I’m looking at (digi-key) claims to have about 5,000 in stock right now.

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        The 4 was impossible to find until, like, four months ago. I’ve been subscribed to six stock notification services for three years and only got my hands on a Pi 4 this year (and it’s not even the model I wanted!). The pandemic was nuts, but things seem to have stabilised.

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    I think I’ve personally hit the point where PIs are like phones, there’s nothing new that I actually need but a handful of things that looks handy. Never thought I’d be excited about (effectively) a bios battery.

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    No actual PCIe or M.2 connector on the board, the M.2 hat won’t be available at launch, and it appears to block the required(?) coolers from being fitted.

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        I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the Pine64 I bought from their Kickstarter. The thing lasted 4 months before it stopped booting. I have no faith in any subsequent products.

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            There were reports that many of the original Pine64 Kickstarter boards had this bootloop problem. While I understand this was one of there first products, I still don’t want to sink money into something when better and more stable options are available.

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                If that’s true then they fixed any quality issues on subsequent boards, so you questioning the stability and quality of the current boards is no longer substantiated

                Meanwhile, anyone that supported their Kickstarter got screwed.

                but I’m curious what you would consider a more stable option?

                Why would I bother when you’re obviously just going to pick it apart, just like you did with the Pi immediately after asking that question. You like the Pine64, great. Good luck with that. I won’t touch them with a 10 foot pole. That’s my opinion. Have a nice day.

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      Not required. And it might block the OFFICIAL cooling case, but it’s a Raspberry Pi. There will be a hundred different custom cooling options soon.

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        The problem is that the M.2 thing still is a HAT, and basically sits about 10mm above the main board, leaving no room for proper active or passive cooling - or at least making it very complicated to achieve. Putting the M.2 slot at the bottom of the main board would have been a good solution that would have avoided a lot of problems.

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    Flawless victory! 🙌

    This thing will make a blazing fast encrypted ZFS NAS with the 2 full-speed USB 3 ports and crypto extensions.

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      I don’t think Linux supports ZFS on ARM. It’s a bad idea without ECC RAM anyways.

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        It does and I used to briefly run a ZFS pool on a Pi 4 in 2019. I only abandoned it due to a nasty deadlock bug that I think got resolved sometime ago. Non-ECC RAM shouldn’t be significantly worse than using say MDRAID or Btrfs with non-ECC RAM.

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    Just in time when I was reading about Home Assistant. Either I can get a couple of these to play with, or I just find an older Pi 4 for cheaper (and easier availability).