Thread: New Raspberry Pi 2 released, Quad core ARM Cortex A7, 1gb RAM
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sulu is offline sulu
2015-02-03 , 15:57
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Originally Posted by MINKIN2 View Post
I am a little peeved though, I upgraded to the Model B+ at Christmas, if only they had given us some prior warning of a new model ahead of release.
Then hear this:
Don't buy the Pi 2, because the Pi 3 is going to be released "soon"!

Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
Now the question isn't whether to buy or not, it is "what will I do with it once I have it" ???
No, the real question is:
If you think you have a use for the Pi 2, why haven't you bought some other arm board yet?
The Pi 2 specs look a lot like a Cubieboard 2 or a Cubietruck. Granted, these are more expensive, but the Pi 2 is also quite late on the market.
So unless you have serious funding problems the niche the Pi 2 could fill should already be filled.

Originally Posted by pagis View Post
so the most important feature of Raspberry Pi 2 is the increased power consumption from 1.6W to 2.4W ... the fact that it provides double the RAM and a faster multiple core CPU is nothing!
Right! The point is to bring your fuel oil bill down. The CPU cycles are just a side effect.
It's basically the Heatball principle:
http://heatball.de/en/
 

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