Raspberry Pi

[zip accident]

This is perhaps an odd question, but can the pi 2 drive a UHD display? I'm guessing not.

[toxibunny]

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 38&t=79330 Relevant at all?

[zip accident]

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 38&t=79330 Relevant at all?

Yeah, thanks for that. It's pretty much a "no" I think. I'm using a UHD display, which happens to have a couple of HDMI inputs free, if plugging the pi in meant a simple back-up system that would be fine, but I don't have time for a 24/7/52 hobby of getting it to run. I don't doubt the mark 3 will do it, there are a lot of UHD displays out there and it would be silly to ignore a segment of the market that has spent money recently.

[Firefox]

You going to try Windows10 (IoT) on it at some point?

No. It's not like it's going to run my favourite Windows games or anything, being ARM-based.

[Baggypants]

You going to try Windows10 (IoT) on it at some point?

No. It's not like it's going to run my favourite Windows games or anything, being ARM-based.

SGoC
Space Giraffe on a Chip

[Firefox]

The Pi 1 model B+ has had its price cut to $25 (£16, +VAT = £19.20).

https://www.raspberrypi.org/price-cut-r ... w-only-25/

The Pi 1 B+ still has the four USB sockets and bigger I/O expansion port of the Pi 2, just not the extra processing power and RAM.

[MegaZoid.]

Gonna pick myself up a raspberry pi 2 on Friday , gonna use it as a squeeze box server.

[pogo]

This year’s Pi, the PINE A64, just shows what a few years does to performance and price. 60 hours until the KS ends.

http://kck.st/1ma9DLQ

[everklear]

This year’s Pi, the PINE A64, just shows what a few years does to performance and price. 60 hours until the KS ends.

I backed them early on in their campaign.
What bothers me about ARM is that there doesn't seem to be any way of comparing the zillion different flavours of processor against each other. Not that I've been able to find, anyway.

[gumboot]

What sort of comparisons do you have in mind?

[pogo]

There are benchmarks, which people use to compare ARM CPUs in phones and tablets. Ars Technia uses this in their reviews. I don’t know if anyone is doing this for Pi and similar. If not you could get and run the benchmarks yourself, or look at the ones for phones with similar CPUs.

I would imagine it is much faster than the PI. When ARM introduced their 64-bit architecture it came with a big jump in performance, not just from the longer register/bus size but from other changes they made at the same time. Apple benefitted greatly as by then they were making their own ARM-based CPUs, and of course have their own OS, and were able to release wholly 64-bit mobile systems a year or more before Android devices were ready.

[gumboot]

Sudden pang of anxiety right after throwing my money in there. There's no SATA but with ethernet NFS should be a reasonably fast option. Unless it turns out ethernet is on USB, in which case there's really no point.

Can't see it, so I don't know, but boot log is here for anyone who can be bothered looking harder than I did.

[everklear]

What sort of comparisons do you have in mind?

Something similar to CPUmark, I suppose.
A way to compare the processors to each other.

[gumboot]

What sort of comparisons do you have in mind?

Something similar to CPUmark, I suppose.
A way to compare the processors to each other.

I guess there's coremark. You can filter down to ARM cores in the search (most of the companies are ARM vendors).

http://www.eembc.org/coremark/index.php

[everklear]

I guess there's coremark. You can filter down to ARM cores in the search (most of the companies are ARM vendors).

http://www.eembc.org/coremark/index.php

Very interesting, thank-you.