Happy Pi days Boys and girls. A new model has been unleashed upon us.
Now its your chance to grab one and never shut the hell up about it whenever a retro console deal comes up here.
Features:
Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex-A53 64-bit SoC @ 1.4GHz
1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11.b/g/n/ac wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE
Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0 (maximum throughput 300Mbps)
4 × USB 2.0 ports
40-pin GPIO header
1 × full-size HDMI
5V/2.5A DC Input Power
Official Raspberry Pi Foundation Product Release Document (all specs and features): https://core-electronics.com.au/attachments/Raspberry-Pi-Mod…
At the heart of this board is a Broadcom BCM2837B0 - it's a 64-bit 1.4Ghz Quad-Core processor that is referred to as the "System on Chip" (SoC for short). Alongside the SoC is RAM and other essential hardware, leaving you with an incredibly cost-effective personal computer that has enough oomph to run a range of operating systems, play high definition video, even retro gaming.
Hmm the thing about the PoE support is you can already do this with a simple PoE splitter on any Pi model.. sure it's not quite as tidy though.
So I personally wouldn't upgrade purely for the PoE "support" especially with the HAT requirement.
The 5Ghz wifi is obviously nice, but I'm running my OSMC Pi3 on ethernet anyway…
The support for HW H.265 @ 1080p is awesome.. but is this exclusive to the B+?
Quote:
"For existing Raspberry Pi users the B+ will be that little bit better for a wide range of tasks: from a media center able to play a wider range of video, due to the B+'s better performance and recent support for hardware-assisted decoding of HDCP-encrypted 1080p H.265 video, to a faster home server thanks to the connectivity upgrades."