The new Raspberry Pi 4 looks very good!

[Red Squirrel]

This sounds practically usable as a workstation if you don't do anything heavy. Up to 4GB of ram available too. (have to pick the model)

https://raspi.tv/2019/raspberry-pi-...ing-at-1-5ghz-with-dual-4k-display-capability

Specifications

• Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz with 1MB L2 cache, 32KB L1
• 1GB, 2GB or 4GB LPDDR4-2400 SDRAM
• 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac wireless LAN
• Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
• GigaBit ethernet (native – not over USB)
• 2 x USB 3.0
• 2 x USB 2.0
• Dual 4K micro-HDMI (p30 if dual)
• Standard 40 pin GPIO header (backward compatible)
• USB-C power input (including OTG connection)
• Videocore 5 GPU (on BCM2711 SoC)
• • H.265 (4Kp60 decode)
  • H.264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)
  • OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics

 

[Jimzz]

Not bad but wish they would have used the A73. More performance and lower power consumption.

That and get rid of the 1gb option. To many parts and will divide price points to much.

I am seeing reports of Videocore 6 on the Raspberry Pi 4B?

 

[Homerboy]

Pretty much a kick-ass Plex server

 

[Scarpozzi]

I have a drawer full of new pi2's that I never deployed. I ended up having performance issues when I was forced to use TLS on a project and couldn't get them to use a lean cert. My solution was to upgrade to a pi3....which made things a little faster, but there's still a delay while it does the handshake.

Any ideas of what I should do with the pi2s?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've always kind of wanted to build some kind of Pi cluster, just never had a specific need, or an application that can do clustering that I want to run. Though they could be useful for running individual services like DNS etc in the place of VMs. You treat the cluster like a VM server but instead of VMs you use Pis. I might actually look into that at some point, could downsize my whole server room to a custom Pi based blade server. One pi per service. Data stored on NAS. Could do something like a DMS telephony switch line drawer but with RPIs. Interestingly they are about the same size as a line card... could make a fun project.

 

[clamum]

I saw that announced/the headline. Made me think of my Pine64 board (similar to the Raspberry Pi). It's specs are:

– 1.2 GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor. Executes both 64 and 32 Bit for scalable high performance.
– Dual I/O expansion slots
– Dual Core Mali 400 MP2 Graphics card
– 1GB DDR3 Memory
– Integrated Display engine with HDMI 1.4a
– 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Port

(I have the 1 GB memory version; there's 2 GB and 512 MB versions as well). Frickin thing was like $25, lol. Pretty crazy.

I put Android on it shortly after I got it a couple years back, but that was it. I wish I could think of a project/use for it, though. I was thinking before that maybe I could put it in my car and have a system that connects to my phone via Bluetooth, but I don't know if there would be a point to that (pretty sure it's possible; there's a wifi/bluetooth module).

 

[Kaido]

I'm a big fan of Pi's & use them for a lot of projects, so not to poo-poo the Pi 4, but if you're not familiar with ODROID, you should check them out, specifically two models:

ODROID-XU4 (Octa)

ODROID-H2 (x86)

If you're into gaming, for example, you can get this sweet N64 case:

https://www.amazon.com/OGST-Gaming-Console-Case-ODROID-XU4/dp/B07D3F1J5G/

And play RetroPi on it with higher performance: