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With a new SoC this might work, but with the existing silicon the extra RAM is useless.
You should formulate it differently - append "it is useless for me." Otherwise, the statement is not true, because I know about at least one person in the world who considers the extra RAM useful.
You should formulate it differently - append "it is useless for me." Otherwise, the statement is not true, because I know about at least one person in the world who considers the extra RAM useful.
Fair enough - to rephrase - It, in my opinion, is not useful to a large enough group of people without a more powerful SoC. Apparently the foundation think otherwise.
They're Ok for kiosks, digital signage and other lower end tasks like that.
Double the cores and get the performance up quite a bit per core and then it won't be so painful. Personally I wouldn't consider less than a Snapdragon X Plus for a desktop.
I have the 8GB version. I think that is enough RAM for me to do system development. I even compiled its own kernel in place just to see. It took several hours but it was possible. I am not upgrading.
SD cards and USB keys assume stable 5 volts.
Unlike M.2 SSDs, there's no space on an SD card to put proper power regulation circuits with inductors and capacitors and all. When the board's power falls below 5 volts (a power glitch), so does SD card's. And whatever the card is writing at that time, that power glitch will be propagated to the media. Not a very cool thing for modern TLC and QLC media.
This is bullshit. The SD card is connected to +3.3V on the Pi and USB keys certainly contain internal voltage regulator(s). No microchips today run directly on 5 Volts...
But yes, you need a stable 5V PSU.
I have the 8GB version. I think that is enough RAM for me to do system development. I even compiled its own kernel in place just to see. It took several hours but it was possible. I am not upgrading.
As a developer I wouldn't waste my time with such slow junk. I value my time. 8GB also is not enough to build a lot of software nowadays.
As a developer I wouldn't waste my time with such slow junk. I value my time. 8GB also is not enough to build a lot of software nowadays.
wow! respect sir. If you allow me, I am having some fun optimizing system software for a low grade hardware, of course not to compare with anything you do at your level.
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