Subj : Re: Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb
To   : paulie420
From : Moondog
Date : Sun Jul 12 2020 16:24:00

  Re: Re: Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb
  By: paulie420 to Arelor on Sun Jul 12 2020 03:30 am

 >  Ar> multimedia players. You can survive with less than 1GB if you are
 >  Ar> careful. The r eal RAM killer of these days is modern web
 >  Ar> browsers. The Web sucks. Depending on your use case you can go with
 >  Ar> lightweight browsers that only support the most basic sites
 >  Ar> or use regular browsers with many functions disabled...
 > 
 > 
 > Yessir, the only thing that ever tripped up an RPi 4 (1gb) was that Ubuntu
 > Mate install.. and yer right, it was the chromium instance... it was actuall
 > chugging along, mostly ok, with just Mate going...
 > 
 > Doesn't really matter, I was just playing with that Ubuntu Mate install -
 > because you can... but the 8gb can slice thru it with no issues. I'm just
 > amazed at these boxes. They are very nice now a days.
 > 
 > I run a FreeBSD RPi, and its an OS that I wouldn't really have had any
 > experience with... so for a $75 (or less) machine be the vehicle for
 > learning; thats awesome.

Awhile back I bought a Pine Rock64 sbc for feeding a display at a non-profit
I volunteer time with, and it's spec's similarly to a Pi3 except they sold wit
h 4gb.  Mate ran slowly on it, however Armbian ran much better on it.  It runs
 a Powerpoint slide show, and Libre Office runs beter with 4gb.

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