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Some dealer in sweden also report of incoming model xxx from Rpi on monday so ...
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2016-02-27, 08:41
(This post was last modified: 2016-02-27, 08:42 by ProsjektX.)
Looking at the pictures a bit it seems like this is more of a Raspberry PI 2 B+. It's probably the same soc, but could be a different revision (higher clock?), while the RAM, USB to LAN chip are the same as 2B. The only difference seems to be the bluetooth+wifi chipset on the rear side. Oh well...
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We'll see.
I doubt I will get one right away, I didn't with the Pi2. From my point of view the only thing I can see it'll bring to my particular party is the possibility of reliable H.265. I am still using original RPI Bs as media centres every day and will continue to do so until they fail or become defunct.
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The only part that surprises me is that they updated the chip to be 64-bit. From what I'm told (and I could be totally wrong) is that 64-bit doesn't always make a big difference or mean "faster". It's an improvement, and the RPF likes to include those whenever possible, but Pi2 to Pi3 will likely be a smaller jump in performance than we saw with Pi1 to Pi2.