No Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019.
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Seems confirmed by Eben in this article.
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@UDb23 But, but, how am I going to play <insert system here>???
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@HurricaneFan it's sad news I know.
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@UDb23 I was going to skip the pi3b+ but maybe I'll get one now. I need a new pi to play with!
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@John_RM_70 As long as their competition doesn't gain more software support, the pi will be fine. That is what makes the pi the better device.
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@HurricaneFan and the community
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@herb_fargus Very true!
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@John_RM_70 said in No Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019.:
I will be keeping my eye on what Odroid are doing.
Odroid (and HardKernel, the company behind them) are around since 2009 and while they're quite a popular choice for SBCs, they're still not gained the support and the popularity of the PI. Remember that the low price means more boards manufactured and more readily available - that is part of the success recipe for the Pi.
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Why do I always come into things too late? :/
Anyway yeah, this thing sounds interesting, Pi will go down as the one that started it all tho I guess in terms of making the market boom, but yeah, top model at such a low price is fairly ridiculous... :/
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@John_RM_70 you have to remember that education is their main goal not game emulation. The $35 price point is to make the product easy to aquire for those who are lower income that couldn't otherwise afford a computer. At that price point they don't have a lot of competition. If you want a more powerful SBC youll have to spend a lot more for something that has a lot less support and a much smaller community. I think the raspberry pi foundation has done well in accomplishing what they set out to do and I don't see them being replaced at the price point any time soon.
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there have been more powerful SOCs available pretty much since the pi2, and maybe earlier. they don't cost much more. at some point you work out that the specs aren't the thing that's made the pi the one with the support.
if anyone cares about specs, just get a intel gemini lake thing or whatever!
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@John_RM_70 said in No Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019.:
Also, one could argue that it is emulation that has put the Pi where it is today.
No, it's not - that's probably what you seem to fail to understand - retrogaming or emulation is not the target of the Pi Foundation when designing the Pi. It's not about defending, as much as about explaining why your high performance expectations are not what the PI is about.
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@John_RM_70 We can argue all you want, but it's not emulation that 'put Pi into the mainstream'. Coming back to the topic at hand, if you really want something more powerful than the PI, you should shoot directly at a miniPC - this will get you the best software support and performance. Sure, it's a little pricier, but if you dislike waiting for SBC X to get support for Y, that's the best bang for your buck.
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@John_RM_70 said in No Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019.:
Nonsense. How many on this very forum found out about,or got into the Pi because of Education ? How many ? I'll bet NONE.
I heard about the Pi long before I heard about RetroPie. About 5 years ago I remember I've seen it first, when a colleague bought one to measure the temperature and water level of his acquarium, then he put a motor to control the water levels there. At the time, we tried to get a Pi2(?) for a digital signage system working, but Chromium would barely run and
omxplayerwas the only choice to play HD video, so we had to scrape the idea.
So yeah, I heard about the Pi long before RetroPie.EDIT: just to add another experience to the point above - I got 2 other friends who bought a PI a few years back to run Kodi. One of them even got an Orange or BananaPi, but he gave up on it due to the poor (at the time) software support.
Oh, and I see you get all your forum "mates"to upvote you, and down-vote me". So much for "Community". It's only community if you fall inline with the gestapo.
You got absolutely zero downvotes in this topic.
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@John_RM_70 said in No Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019.:
How many on this very forum found out about,or got into the Pi because of Education ? How many ? I'll bet NONE
The sample of people in this forum is clearly biased. Since this is a RetroPie forum we're all into emulation, and most likely we found out about Pi because we were looking for an emulation device. I don't think it would be like this for the average Pi user.
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