[TriEmbed] Raspberry Pi 2 is 6 times faster than Pi 1

[Rodney Radford]

The story mixes multiple announcements - basically in the last few days,
there has been official announcement of the following:

* new Raspberry Pi 2 which bumps the clock rate from 700Mhz -> 900Mhz, # of
cores from 1 -> 4, and doubles the memory to 1GB, yet keeps the price the
same and the power requirement very close to the original - a great
announcement for those embedded systems that need a little bit more power

* Microsoft has announced plans to support the Raspbery Pi as a platform.
Personally I think this is a great announcement, even if I am very unlikely
to take advantage of it.  There are not many small embedded systems that
support Windows at a cheap price, and whether we like it or not, a lot of
things still run only on Windows

* new form factor for the Raspberry Pi - this is in addition to the current
form factor (board size/shape) - a SODIMM package.  This is the style
package used by memory makers so it allows the Raspberry Pi to be more
easily interfaced into a larger computer system - perhaps as a BMC, or even
a 'super computer' where 8-16x SODIMM sockets can house an array of
Raspberry Pis

So while Windows was announced as a "me too" for the Raspberry Pi, there
are still plenty of good for the new Raspberry Pi 2.0 - if I had not just
purchased several B+ systems, I would probably order a 2.0.  However, by
the time the 2.0 is readily available, perhaps I will need a few more
boards to play with...



On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:

> Under no circumstances will I inform my students about this.
> The sign in the Raspberry Pi computer room here at the museum reads, "We
> only speak Linux here": it will remain true.
> How can I allow these young minds to be influenced by the dark side?
>
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> Was pointed to this article by a coworker:
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> http://www.computerworld.com/article/2877981/raspberry-pi-2-is-6-times-faster-than-pi-1-supports-windows-10.html
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