Subj : Re: Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb
To   : Moondog
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Jul 12 2020 23:32:00

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

I also have a couple Rock64s, that I bought when Raspberry didn't cover the
higher end single board market; one was used at a digital display, too -
another as a Mirror display.

:P The 8gb RPi has been impressive so far.. and this one is going in a cool
pelican case. I recently bought like 10 pelican cases of differing sizes,
that used to be aviation communications boxes... so already instale is a
hefty power button, charging wires, charges port & audio - all of a nice
metal plate on the rear of the cases. Gonna create a bugout RPi; with kiwix
offline data, linux & a touchscreen... an ethernet switch and battery bank
inside. (batteries collected from the flight comms kits.)

So far, the 8gb model is the best I've used - and most of the RPi issues are
gone. I'm about to do the SSD boot modification and undo that bottleneck too.

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