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2GB of RAM would've been more important to me than all the listed changes.
by DoubleMalt 9y ago
2GB of RAM would've been more important to me than all the listed changes.
- boris 9y agoOr even 4G. Would be nice to have a high-memory variant especially seeing that that would require zero changes in the OS unlike most othet hardware variations.
- AdrianoKF 9y agoAs far as I can remember, the system-on-chip architecture limits the maximum amount of RAM to 1 GB (I'll try and find an official source, it's probably somewhere in the BCM283x peripherals documentation). Not to say Broadcom couldn't spin a newer revision of the SoC with a different internal architecture, but for now it seems that >1 GB of RAM would require substantially more effort than just swapping the DRAM module on the board.
- boris 9y agoRight, RAM is part of the SoC... that probably makes the idea pretty much a no-go.
- AdrianoKF 9y agoThe RAM was only integrated on the SoC on earlier models (called a package-on-package, PoP -- see https://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware#Components https://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware#Components) Later versions (I think starting with RPi 2) have a separate DRAM chip on the bottom side of the PCB.
- gambiting 9y agoFor this(and other) reason, the Asus Tinker Board looks like the superior choice, for very little more money than the Pi3: https://www.asus.com/uk/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/ https://www.asus.com/uk/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/
- kingosticks 9y agoThe last time I checked out the Asus Tinker it was still suffering from horrendous software support and cost nearly twice as much in the UK (which it still does, £32 vs £55). So unless you NEED those extra features, I strongly disagree.
- onesun 9y agoI bought one and played with it over the holidays and there are a ton of OS options now. There's Armbian support now, which wasn't around at first, and it seems to be very stable and feature complete. The board is significantly more powerful than a Pi 3 with emulators and compiling and just about everything.
- kingosticks 9y agoI had so many problems with Tinker OS and I wasn't the only one. Never tried Armbian so maybe it's better, how's the graphics performance with that?
- zielmicha 9y agoYou can actually boot Raspbian (or probably any other ARM OS) on Asus Tinkerboard - you only need to copy some files to /boot (including kernel) from TinkerOS and several kilobytes of bootloader after partition table. (That way you can prepare image that boots both on RPi and Tinkerboard)
- kingosticks 9y agoThat sounds cool! Does the tinker board hdmi/audio work when booting raspbian?
- zielmicha 9y agoHDMI works (only kernel support and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev for Xorg is required), I haven't tested audio. Example hybrid image for Tinkerboard and RPi is here (based on Ubuntu): https://files.husarion.com/husarion-core2-ros.img.xz https://files.husarion.com/husarion-core2-ros.img.xz (unfortunately the build scripts are not public yet)
- mrmondo 9y agoYeah, although adding usable wireless is a big bonus - I wish it had 2-4GB of RAM and I wish you could put the USB ports into gadget mode like you can with the zero, but preferably at least two or more ports that can work with it. Also - I’m really disappointed there’s still no GbE.
- theandrewbailey 9y agoThe 3B+ has GbE, though bottlenecked by USB 2.
- driverdan 9y agoFor network applications the improved networking speeds are far more important.
- Greg-J 9y agoAgreed. I would have liked to see an updated video core. A Vulkan announcement would have been big news.