| From: Stewart Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On Mon., Sep. 16, 2019, 12:30 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> | wrote: | | > ... I just assumed that it was some surplus board that was | > being blown out. Maybe it is. | > | | It is. It's from a home server thing that bankrupted the developer before | they got to market. Once they're gone, they're gone. Interesting. Sad. I wonder how many they made. Maybe that's why Ameridroid seems to have run out of the larger breakout boards. | While it may not be as fast as eMMC, the Raspberry Pi 4 does have a faster | connection to microSD (with the right card). It also has DDR4 which makes | it fairly quick. How do you know when an SD card is "the right card"? Is it which SD standard that the card claims to conform to? I seem to remember that microSD has half the pins compared with normal SD cards. That ought to be a strike against. | I wrote a preso last week on a 4 GB Raspberry Pi 4 (over VNC, even) and it | didn't feel like an SBC at all. I hear that the Raspberry Pi 4 is somewhat | unexpectedly picking up corporate sales as a cheap dual-screen thin client. I have ordered two 4bs recently. Still a month away from delivery (slow boat from China). Seeed Studio has free shipping if an order was large enough. Two 4GiB pi's plus power supplies was large enough. I already have one FLIRC case.