Interesting differences to the pi 3 io is the dual hdmi out.<p>I don't use the hdmi out very much on any of my pis so I find this interesting. Are people using these as workstations? Even with stripped down Debian they seem kind of slow even just browsing the web.
Link to release blog entry: <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/" rel="nofollow">https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-...</a><p>(submitted as: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863</a>)
This looks like an awesome upgrade. These are the biggest highlights to me:<p>>The Ethernet controller on the main SoC is connected to an external Broadcom PHY over a dedicated RGMII link, providing full throughput. USB is provided via an external VLI controller, connected over a single PCI Express Gen 2 lane, and providing a total of 4Gbps of bandwidth, shared between the four ports.<p>>we’re using the Mesa “V3D” driver developed by Eric Anholt [...] It also eliminates roughly half of the lines of closed-source code in the platform.
Neat, I really like the raspberry pis.<p>There are often better specs to buy but not with the same support and community - and that is worth a lot! However I'm not thrilled with the apparent price point of the new ones.<p>The prices I get are €46,83 – €66,96. Which I guess will settle a bit with time but it is a huge step up from any previous Pi.
4GB RAM is a lot better than before, but I had hoped for 8GB. If the Raspi had a decent amount of RAM I would seriously consider using one as my main computer.
Earlier submission with lots of discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863</a>
I just bought a 3B+ 2 weeks ago and was running into issues with my server needing a bit more memory. Glad to see the 4GB option and I am going to get one of these and return the old one.
Just ordered two 4GB variants.
They're getting strong enough to replace my 3 node proxmox cluster at home for most of my services.<p>Not happy with micro-HDMI though.