Posted on 10/28/2021 1:27:32 PM PDT by algore
The cheapest member of the Raspberry Pi computer family now has a successor: the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W ,
A 64-bit, quad-core follow-up to Zero W costing just $15.
Launched today by British computer-maker Raspberry Pi, the Pi Zero 2 W features a 1GHZ CPU that the manufacturer claims packs 5x the performance for multithread workloads than 2015's Raspberry Pi Zero.
The 65mm x 30mm board features a quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 CPU, clocked at 1GHz. At its heart is a Raspberry Pi RP3A0 system-in-package (SiP), integrating a Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC (the same used in the Raspberry Pi 3, albeit clocked-down slightly) with 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
As well as offering a significant jump in multi-threading, Raspberry Pi says the upgraded processor in the Zero 2 W delivers a 40% performance boost in single-thread executions.
The super-cheap and super-hackable Raspberry Pi Zero quickly became one of Raspberry Pi's best-selling devices back when it launched six years ago, thanks to its versatility and affordability price – costing just $5 at launch.
It's also a firm favorite of Raspberry Pi co-founder, Eben Upton. "Of all the products we've launched, Zero is still the one I'm proudest of: it most perfectly embodies our mission to give people access to tools, and to eliminate cost as a barrier,"
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this is an amazing device for the price.
along with an apple dac and volumio or Lms this will make a great little audio and internet radio streamer
I use a pi3 for this now, but this new zero will work just fine.
you could also easily use this as a 80s arcade machine emulator, it should easily run most games from that time period
I may do that for fun
I remember my first computer, an Amiga 500, had a 7.16 MHz clock.
Awesome to think that such a small thing likely has more computing power than was on the Apollo spacecraft. Imagine what those missions could have done with all the saved weight.
When my kids talk about SpaceX or Blue Origin, I tell them in our day they did it with stuff designed with slide rules, drawn with pencil on mylar, and fabricated by high school grads on manually controlled machine tools.
Yep. A lot more Tang and freeze dried ice cream.
Hmm, thanks for the heads up. I am a pentester and a small hidden PC is useful for a fairly large number of applications. I have too many projects on my plate to play with this right now but ...
Augmented reality display with touch screen keyboard could be VERY discrete.
The 7.16 MHz clock was double the color chroma frequency in NTSC video. What 3.579545 or such
They are fun and cheap. I am automating my RV with an older Pi. I use another for media. And with older monitors or TVs at thrift stores you can have a serviceable computer for under $50.
Of course we still need a massive government welfare program to buy kids the latest and greatest ipads for their indoctrination camps.
Yes, the NTSC chroma carrier was 3.579545, which made the Amiga the perfect low cost television Character Generator.
I spent a few years at a local Public Access cable television station (think Wayne's World) as engineer, and we used Amigas as character generators in our studios and in our remote truck.
I had a video capture card for the Amiga that used a black & white camera with an external color filter wheel. You could either grab an image in black & white, or grab the image three times, one each for red, green, and blue for a color picture. Just don't bump the camera when manually rotating the color filter!
I would grab printed logos and import them for use with the character generator program. Logos for sports teams, cable channels, etc.
The cable system also had a program guide channel that was based on an Amiga 1000.
Can I run Win-7 Pro x64 on it?
A few years into those Amigas an outfit called Newtek came out with the video toaster. All this time there was nothing on the PC for video production. If I remember I got video toaster about 1990. They followed with the 9 gig drive for non-linear editing. Only about 70% of the drive space was fast enough for the video data in those years.
What was that marketing chick called ? Tiki or something.
Kiki ??
no, this is an arm chip there was never an arm version of 7
It is theoretically possible that you might be able to run windows 8.1 arm like they ran on the RT tablets just maybe.
but there are a lot of decent linux distros that will be very happy to run on it.
anyway sounds like you probably want a pi4 you can run win10 or 11 on that.
Wonder if it will be any more consistently available in the US than the Zero has been.
Win 8,10, 11 are poisonous.
I’m staying w/ 7 on this commercial/industrial HP box.
I miss dialup BBS and free AOL disks.
as a side note, Freerepublic could easily work as a dialup bbs without much modification.
Well, someone needs to bring it’s function into the 21st century!
Okay, I’m a dummy here. What are these and what use are they? Are they used as front end controllers for other devices? I have no clue. And will it run a MacOS or iOS?
It just makes no sense to me to have only one USB port. Sure you can use BT for stuff but if you need USB and end up hanging a powered hub on it the result is an ugly mess.
But did I order one? Youbetcha.
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