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No fucking way they stuck with mini HDMI I swear to God. The only thing I wanted from a new gen was an HDMI port designed to actually be used
And they kept the same WiFi / Bluetooth chip, known for being completely unstable and recommended to be supplemented for almost any project
Still no m2 slot support? SD cards remind me of the 5400rpm HDD days.
It does support m.2 (and presumably other single-lane pcie devices via a HAT apparently.
So that's an improvement
While true m.2 is available as a bulky Hat, I wonder when they will start using the underside more. There is so much space where e.g. a m.2 slot would have fit perfect while still keeping the whole system slim.
To be fair it doesn't have to be a hat. They have the pcie lane rigged up to an FPC connector similar to the DSI ones. So someone could easily design an m.2 drive enclosure, PCB, etc that just accepts the FPC ribbon and you can mount it wherever you'd like
I mean the M2 I feel for most uses it would mean extra costs just to be unused the hats makes much more sense.
I'm not sure it's needed, but certainly would be nice. Most applications for a pi are just fine on a high performance SD card
Every post I’ve seen about this had people complaining about the things it didn’t have. Will it actually satisfy anyone?
Agreed. Seems like I am going to skip this generation or if I need a new Pi, buy a 4.
Personally I'm not sure yet. Sounds like its gotten a very much needed performance boost but those drawbacks are certainly disappointing.
Nice, but can you actually buy it?
Just like the current rpis, you won't be able to. But businesses will.
Rpi is a for maximum profit company now, it's not about supplying boards to hobbiests, it's about supplying boards to industry
Why the doom-and-gloom? Have you tried ordering any in the last several months?
https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PI4
I ordered 4x Pi 4 8GBs a few weeks ago for a Kubernetes cluster without any issue. The stock problem cleared up a few months ago.
No it didn't. The stock problem will be considered "cleared up" when you can wander into a Microcenter any day of the week and grab one, and that is very much not the case yet. At my local Microcenter, they're still selling out within hours of receiving a shipment (and they're only receiving like one shipment a month).
That mostly depends on the thoughts on profitability by the microcenter, not necessarily on general availability.
Sadly not so much on the CM4, which is what a lot of people are after these days.
Seem to be plenty of special-purpose bring-your-own-Pi carrier boards (like the Home Assistant "Yellow") that people haven't been able to get CM4s for in going on a year at this point.
I’ll give you that on the CMs. They haven’t been easy to find in a long time.
I bought my first rpi 4 for like 30 eur, the second one I couldnt even buy.
No open sourced RISC-V processor? Not interested.
And courting Micro$oft...??
He's lost the plot
To quote a Linux tech writer:
"You literally cannot boot a raspberry pi zero, one, two, three or four without running ThreadX which is a Microsoft product.
"So whether the OS pings a repo or not is moot. The whole damn computer is run by a proprietary sealed Microsoft binary."
Can I just get the Pi3 and Pi4 variants readily and consistently available?
Thirsty boy
Is it fast and furious too?
I assume still no real power management :-S
You can adjust the power usage now to either over clock the CPU or to supply USB devices.
