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I think you are applying your usecase and thinking that is everyone's use case. Think battery power.
by byteknight 2y ago
I think you are applying your usecase and thinking that is everyone's use case. Think battery power.
- mlyle 2y agoYup. I had students running a machine learning model on a Pi attached to a scooter. The power draw of the computing system was significant, and the performance limitations were too. The existence of commodity, well-documented, well-supported SBCs offering more computing in less power is exciting. (Also, using less power means you can put it in more places without worrying about getting rid of the heat, or can go longer before throttling).
- tonymet 2y agowould 1 watt have mattered?
- mlyle 2y ago20-30% more battery life and having more performance would have simplified our life, yes.
- tonymet 2y agohow much of the current for the application was drawn by the pi? if it's a scooter, you are pulling 100amps for the scooter and 200ma for the pi
- mlyle 2y agoThe computer was on its own battery to get clean power. And it was using more than 200mA "power", not that mA is a unit of power. Honestly, it feels like you're trying to prove me wrong about my one case. Power consumption and heat dissipation matter. The pi is rarely the lowest power path one could use to do computing, and it isn't the highest performance, either... but using less power and having more performance makes it suitable for more things (obviously).
- tonymet 2y agoas in portable or embedded? Embedded, Pi has too much consumption. saving a watt isn't your problem