The Pi4 is a really unique balance of performance and power consumption. Runs well off a standard power bank with a great desktop environment. Ideal for robotics and remote applications.
I also like the USB C port for power along with the addition of 2 x USB 3 ports. The RPi5 has a good video play back making this model the perfect PC for a HTPC. Good video and comparisons between the models. What I don't like is the 2 x micro HDMI ports. I would rather settle for one full size HDMI port.
The early pi models have dedicated video decoding hardware that requires a license. You can get smooth 1080p playback out of them for some codecs if you set it up.
I recently loaded an older version of raspbian onto a model 2 and desktop navigation was super snappy. I'm wondering whether 10 years of software bloat is unfair to hold against earlier conputers
Did you mention the model 1 B plus? In between the B and the 2, the B+ introduced a lot of the things later models would have like 40 pin gpio, squarely placed mounting holes, ports on just 2 sides, 4 usb ports ...
After continuing the video I noticed on your network test you correctly said the said the 3B+ speed 😁 great video. 😮 but you did label the network speed as the Pi3 but was in fact a Pi3B+ 🤭😜
I like to see build in m.2 on back of the board. Like many other SBC’s. Also video driver for raspian os. I got the new orange pi 4a and it have video driver from Orange os Debian version. It runs as fast as pi5 but way cheaper.
The Pi4 is a really unique balance of performance and power consumption. Runs well off a standard power bank with a great desktop environment. Ideal for robotics and remote applications.
I also like the USB C port for power along with the addition of 2 x USB 3 ports. The RPi5 has a good video play back making this model the perfect PC for a HTPC. Good video and comparisons between the models. What I don't like is the 2 x micro HDMI ports. I would rather settle for one full size HDMI port.
The early pi models have dedicated video decoding hardware that requires a license. You can get smooth 1080p playback out of them for some codecs if you set it up.
should we be hoping for >1 lane of PCIe?
I recently loaded an older version of raspbian onto a model 2 and desktop navigation was super snappy. I'm wondering whether 10 years of software bloat is unfair to hold against earlier conputers
Did you mention the model 1 B plus? In between the B and the 2, the B+ introduced a lot of the things later models would have like 40 pin gpio, squarely placed mounting holes, ports on just 2 sides, 4 usb ports ...
2 PCIe ports. Full Hdmi port. Usb C instead of usb 2.
The 3B+ could only do up to 300Mb connection speed, the Pi4 has true 1Gb connection. 2:56
After continuing the video I noticed on your network test you correctly said the said the 3B+ speed 😁 great video.
😮 but you did label the network speed as the Pi3 but was in fact a Pi3B+ 🤭😜
I like to see build in m.2 on back of the board. Like many other SBC’s. Also video driver for raspian os. I got the new orange pi 4a and it have video driver from Orange os Debian version. It runs as fast as pi5 but way cheaper.