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Jamie Kahn Genet 9 years ago

8 Core? A bump upwards for the RAM? SATA?

I'm thinking with a few more cores even at the same spec, and another couple GBs of RAM, I could truly replace most of my desktop computer needs with such a Pi. SATA for bonus points, but I can live with only USB HDs. Right now if I launch Chromium, for example, open a bunch of tabs, I quickly get into trouble with slowness, and crashing.

Maybe as a Pi Pro adjunct to the current Pi? Still cheap and as moddable as can be, but maybe $20 more for the above?

Perhaps three lines of Pi computers: Current Zero for minimal computing power needs, standard Pi (current Pi 3) that's great for almost any project needing a wee bit more power, and a Pi Pro for the cheapest possible fully useful desktop that still has all the rest of what makes Pis so fun and useful.

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jack4747 9 years ago

critto:

USB3 Gigabit Eth (but with USB3 an adapter would be enough) More RAM possibly Hardware decoding of HEVC Mechanically ready for a heatsink

o wait this is (almost) the Odroid C2 :)

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jack4747 9 years ago

scritto:

oh yes, and improve ARM code with some crypto engine.

Bye Jack

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Tony van der Hoff 9 years ago

PoE

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Tony van der Hoff 9 years ago

PoE

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Jamie Kahn Genet 9 years ago

Yes, of course that too! Especially if there's no SATA.

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jack4747 9 years ago

ha scritto:

filters for that will take a lot of space on the board, I think it's better something like this:

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Kerr Mudd-John 9 years ago

scritto:

Why stop there? addon graphics processor. - ah we don't even have full a= ccess to the current one.

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Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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Another Dave 9 years ago

Not strictly next Pi but open source the various blobs so I, or somebody else, can port Minix. At the moment the Beaglebone is regarded as more open source :(

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Mr. Man-wai Chang 9 years ago

If your computing needs demand extremely fast CPUs, go Intel or AMD aka desktop PCs? :)

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Ahem A Rivet's Shot 9 years ago

If that's not enough go Cavium ThunderX - 48 core ARM chips with lots of trimmings (10gE etc etc).

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alister 9 years ago

at that price they are practically giving them away

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sean 9 years ago

I'd pay $20US more for a secondary NIC and for both not to be connected to the USB BUS.

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Theo Markettos 9 years ago

What do you need open-sourcing to port Minix?

The GPU is the main blob, but I doubt you're going to need Minix doing OpenGL...

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ray carter 9 years ago

More memory would be really nice - preferably user expandable. No point in a 64 bit cpu with only 1gb.

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Rob Morley 9 years ago

$20 - hahaha

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Part of what makes it useful is you don't particularly care if you blow it up, and if you screw up the configuration you can just write a fresh SD card - neither of those is compatible with a general purpose PC replacement. Also a more powerful board is going to need more than a standard 5V 2A PSU, and probably more than the current passive cooling.

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sean 9 years ago

Is raspbianOS 64 bit yet? Last I knew, it was 32bit to prevent duplicating efforts to support 32 & 64 bit builds.

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mm0fmf 9 years ago

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

At least me and Rob understand. ;-)

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ray carter 9 years ago

It is 32 bit. There are a few 64 bit os's available, but aganin, what's the point?

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Another Dave 9 years ago

The main bugbear seems to be the boot process from the SD card. Apparently the beaglebone can be booted using free software (Das U-Boot) whereas the Pi SD boot software is closed source. I haven't got a beaglebone so I can't really help there.

3D acceleration is not an issue because, as you say, Minix is purely educational and doesn't need it.

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