Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Mind blowing PI

Today I went to the raspberrypi.org website to see how much the little £5 micro computer has changed, I was in for a shock. They still make a £5 desktop computer called "Raspberry pi zero" they also have a slightly better computer called the "Raspberry pi zero w" and you get change from £10. What blew my mind was the "Raspberry Pi 4", a credit card sized computer that has more computing power than the desktop computer I put together 6 years ago. 

what I am saying is a little £35 credit card sized computer does everything my old desktop computer does. It has a standard x86 system so it will run any operating system that can boot from an SD card. Someone even managed to get windows 10 to run on it. 

They make their own Operating system for it, they renamed it Rasberry pi os, a type of Linux. It is a single board fanless mini computer that is cheap and powerful, my mind is blown. Everything is on the circuit board, the ram, processor, grachics controller, sound card, network card. All stiched together and ready to run. 

You need to go to Rasberrypi.org website to see what I am talking about. 

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