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There's only two things I dislike on the Pi 4 today really. No options for fast internal storage, and that tiny HDMI port. Given Pi 4 has reasonable CPU and up
by giobox 6y ago
There's only two things I dislike on the Pi 4 today really.
No options for fast internal storage, and that tiny HDMI port. Given Pi 4 has reasonable CPU and up to 8GB of RAM, the former is a shame. The full size HDMI port on Pi 3 was compatible with cables virtually everyone already owned.
A model in the range with 32 or 64gb fast storage on board would be great - The Pi is useless for many without purchasing an additional SD card for a boot volume anyway!
- dangerbird2 6y agoIIRC, The internal storage thing is a limitation of the system-on-chip they use. They only have access to a single pci lane, so they decided it's better for the form factor and education use-case to connect the lane to a hardwired pair of usb3 ports than a potentially more flexible pci-e port, which would allow nvme storage. FWIW, the new compute module does have built-in access to the pci lane, which gives you the option to use nvme in addition to the onboard flash storage.
- sigstoat 6y agothey've got compute modules with emmc, and and a board you can slap them on, that has full sized HDMI. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4-io-board/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4-io-boa... costs more, and takes up more space, but it includes a whole bunch of other goodness. the compute module with 8gb of ram and 32gb of emmc isn't available in small quantities yet, but that should happen sooner or later.