Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ overview
Conclusions
The brand new Raspberry Pi 3 B+ is, as the name suggests, not a Raspberry Pi 4. However, in almost every aspect of an SBC, it offers slightly more than its predecessor – and at an identical price of $35 (excluding tax and shipping).
The RPi3B+ fulfills some of the long-desired wishes of the community. More CPU power, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac, and PoE are only the tip of the iceberg. Like the RPi1B+, the RPi3B+ is an incremental development, not a quantum leap. The VideoCore IV, which is far more deeply hardwired to the BCM283x than the CPU cores, restricts the new Rasp Pi to a RAM limit of 1GB. However, experience with the RPi3B shows that even H.265 videos can run smoothly through hardware acceleration.
Production of the RPi3B+ will continue until at least January 2023, and the Foundation assures the community that the other models will also be continued as long as they see demand.
Infos
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-model-bplus-sale-now-35/
- Raspberry Pi Zero W: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/
- Official Foundation power supply: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply/
- Raspberry Pi UARTs: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/uart.md
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