Raspberry Pi 4 with 8G of RAM
I just got an ad from Seeed Studio. It offers an 8G Raspberry Pi 4 for pre-order. I didn't know of this new RAM size before seeing the ad. Estimated availability date is June 5. <https://www.seeedstudio.com/Raspberry-Pi-4-Computer-Model-B-8GB-p-4595.html> US$75 for a computer with 8G seems quite reasonable. Being greedy, the only Pi 4's I've purchased have been 4G units. I will probably only buy 8G units in the future. I admit that 2G is enough for many purposes. 8G certainly makes a 64-bit OS more desireable. I think that Raspbian is still only 32 bits (so that all Pi's are still supported by one image, I think). Seeed is an interesting "maker" sort of vendor. I have ordered a couple of Pi 4's from them in the past. I consider them reputable. Slowish delivery (from China). They do have a warehouse in the US too. See also <https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/raspberry-pi-foundation-announces-raspberry-pi-4-with-8gb-of-ram/> This says that the Foundation has started working on 64-bit Raspbian. 64-bit Ubuntu and other distros are already available now.
Raspberry Pi 4 8GB version was just released today! https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/ 64bit version of Raspbian (Now apparently renamed to Raspberry Pi OS) in beta also released. Andrew On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 12:03, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I just got an ad from Seeed Studio. It offers an 8G Raspberry Pi 4 for pre-order. I didn't know of this new RAM size before seeing the ad. Estimated availability date is June 5.
< https://www.seeedstudio.com/Raspberry-Pi-4-Computer-Model-B-8GB-p-4595.html
US$75 for a computer with 8G seems quite reasonable.
Being greedy, the only Pi 4's I've purchased have been 4G units. I will probably only buy 8G units in the future. I admit that 2G is enough for many purposes.
8G certainly makes a 64-bit OS more desireable. I think that Raspbian is still only 32 bits (so that all Pi's are still supported by one image, I think).
Seeed is an interesting "maker" sort of vendor. I have ordered a couple of Pi 4's from them in the past. I consider them reputable. Slowish delivery (from China). They do have a warehouse in the US too.
See also < https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/raspberry-pi-foundation-announces-raspberr...
This says that the Foundation has started working on 64-bit Raspbian. 64-bit Ubuntu and other distros are already available now. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Canadian (Ottawa) availability: https://www.buyapi.ca/product/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-8gb/ Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 12:57, Andrew Heagle via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Raspberry Pi 4 8GB version was just released today!
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
64bit version of Raspbian (Now apparently renamed to Raspberry Pi OS) in beta also released.
Andrew
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 12:03, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I just got an ad from Seeed Studio. It offers an 8G Raspberry Pi 4 for pre-order. I didn't know of this new RAM size before seeing the ad. Estimated availability date is June 5.
< https://www.seeedstudio.com/Raspberry-Pi-4-Computer-Model-B-8GB-p-4595.html
US$75 for a computer with 8G seems quite reasonable.
Being greedy, the only Pi 4's I've purchased have been 4G units. I will probably only buy 8G units in the future. I admit that 2G is enough for many purposes.
8G certainly makes a 64-bit OS more desireable. I think that Raspbian is still only 32 bits (so that all Pi's are still supported by one image, I think).
Seeed is an interesting "maker" sort of vendor. I have ordered a couple of Pi 4's from them in the past. I consider them reputable. Slowish delivery (from China). They do have a warehouse in the US too.
See also < https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/raspberry-pi-foundation-announces-raspberr...
This says that the Foundation has started working on 64-bit Raspbian. 64-bit Ubuntu and other distros are already available now. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
--- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On 2020-05-28 1:40 p.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Canadian (Ottawa) availability: https://www.buyapi.ca/product/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-8gb/
Craig at Elmwood in Toronto hasn't listed his yet, but likely will soon: https://elmwoodelectronics.ca/collections/raspberry-pi Elmwood isn't an official reseller in Canada, but the sister company in the US (Chicago Electronic Distributors) is. Buy-a-Pi is an official reseller here, so has access to these earlier.
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 12:57, Andrew Heagle via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
64bit version of Raspbian (Now apparently renamed to Raspberry Pi OS) in beta also released.
Note that it's very beta: much desktop acceleration isn't available yet. They also seem to have got network and USB boot almost totally sorted out for the 4B now. Fast USB 3 (with the right interface) means decent disk performance. Stewart
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 12:57, Andrew Heagle via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
64bit version of Raspbian (Now apparently renamed to Raspberry Pi OS) in beta also released.
Note that it's very beta: much desktop acceleration isn't available yet.
Maybe a plug here https://www.oracle.com/linux/downloads/linux-arm-downloads.html Dhaval
On Thu., May 28, 2020, 14:08 Dhaval Giani, <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe a plug here https://www.oracle.com/linux/downloads/linux-arm-downloads.html
It won't have accelerated graphics either. If the Foundation hasn't done it for their release for the hardware they know best. Stewart
On 2020-05-28 12:03 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I just got an ad from Seeed Studio. It offers an 8G Raspberry Pi 4 for pre-order. I didn't know of this new RAM size before seeing the ad.
Someone I talk with in an IRC channel saw this coming ages ago. He said they were calling it a typo in the user manual. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
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