Subj : Re: Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb baby!
To   : paulie420
From : Mortifis
Date : Sun Jul 12 2020 12:40:40

 > So I received a package yesterday.. I ordered 2 RPi's in the 8gb variety. I
 > am simply amazed at the entire life of Raspberry Pi machines. I was a buyer
 > of the very first one, and that blew my mind some 5 or so years ago... where
 > RPi has come is just as awesome!

 > A few weeks ago I decided to try out Ubuntu Mate with my RPi 4 1gb model...
 > you can install Ubuntu Server, and from there perform a couple tweaks to fix
 > some WiFi & other issues; ultimately putting mate on top and having a full
 > Ubuntu install. Well, I got as far as that anyway... Userver went on without
 > a hitch, and the tweaks were fine... heck, even mate went on without a
 > hitch... but that's where the party ended. 1gb just wasn't enough to do
 > anything. Open one chromium browser and the memory load would get to the
 > high 8-900s, rendering the RPi worthless. Ah ha, but fast forward to NOW
 > with more memory...

 > (I've preface with the fact that I've heard good things about Ubuntu Mate on
 > RPi with as little as 2gb, or the 4GB variety..) but boy oh boy, this 8gb
 > does the trick! I'm getting solid, do I even say good!?- performance...
 > it'll play 4K video- I did turn on some video graphics tweaks to give the
 > GPU its own dedicated memory; and had to turn on access to that in
 > chromium... but it flies now. 

 > I just can't believe for less than $75 you can get a machine that runs
 > Ubuntu really well... sure it's still ARM, but I think software will
 > continue to support it more and more; I envision a time when ARM even gets
 > more popular...

 > At any rate, I highly suggest the RPi 4 8gb model- BBSes? Done.
 > Coding/programming/playing with hardware? Done. You're all [mostly] from me
 > era; we were paying $5000 or more in 1995 for this computer!

 > Anyone else have good experience with this new RPi? I have tons of projects
 > and production pi's:


I recently picked up the 4gig and am, well, not super impressed with the wifi
and screen resolution, but after updating the firmware it seems adequate for a
few of my 'gizmo' projects

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