Link to release blog entry: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-...
(submitted as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863)
A step up to A72 cores while retaining the same price is huge. Kudo to the Raspberry Pi team.
This looks like an awesome upgrade. These are the biggest highlights to me:
>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.
>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.
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.
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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863
Is the Gigabit Ethernet finally not over the USB 2.0 bus?
Amazing improvements. Seems like they are getting much closer I'm terms of performance to ODROID.
Has anyone found a reference to the Wifi / Bluetooth chipset? Is it the same one as on the 3b+?
I was hoping for dual ethernet, to use as a cheap firewall. Dual everything else except that.
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.
Not happy with micro-HDMI though.
Interesting differences to the pi 3 io is the dual hdmi out.
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.