[TriEmbed] Fwd: New Raspberry Pi Zero 2!

Pete Soper pete at soper.us
Thu Oct 28 16:45:21 CDT 2021


Speaking of, where can I buy an RPI 4 other than Ebay? I chased down 
every source branching from raspberrypi.org and nobody has stock.

-Pete

On 10/28/21 16:27, Ed Blackman via TriEmbed wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:11:15AM -0400, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote:
>>  From Elektor Magazine's YouTube channel: "The new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W!"
>> https:// <https://youtu.be/3m--7hGiTcE>https://youtu.be/3m--7hGiTcE
>>
> [ ... ]
>>> In many cases, the Zero 2 W can be used as a drop-in replacement for the
>>> Zero W and when doing so it will greatly speed up the host application. It
>>> is about 5 times as fast as a Zero W. According to Raspberry Pi, the Zero
>>> 2W has about 85% of the performance of a Raspberry Pi 3.
> Note that extra performance comes at a power cost, if that's important for your application.  The Zero 2 W has a higher default power consumption: about a third higher at idle, and almost 3X higher under high load.  You can turn things off to reduce power consumption, but not as low as the original Zero W.
>
> https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/look-inside-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-and-rp3a0-au
> (at the bottom of the "Performance" section).
>




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