Pi 3
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Just bought a raspberry pi 3. I have some ideas for it but would also like to see what you think are some useful things to do with it.
Pi 3 is actually pretty powerful. It's a good option for an HTPC. Single threaded performance is pretty bad, but it can handle multithreaded decoding really well.
>>53890165
How much more powerful is it compared to the Pi 2?
>>53890192
About 30% more powerful. It has a 1.2ghz cpu vs the 900mhz cpu. It also has built in WiFi
>>53890192
40-50% more powerful due to clock speed, cortex improvements, and cache increase.
900MHz / 1200MHz
256KB L2 cache / 512KB L2 cache
Cortex A7 / Cortex A53
>>53890192
I've used both as full desktops, the rpi3 runs better to a degree, but they are very similar - the rpi3 just has more to work with.
I have a Pi 2 left humming away for chat and email, connected to a 15" screen I wasn't using that used to live in my parent's kitchen before dad got mad at mom watching TV during meals and gave it to me. Really I'm just a dumping ground for people's old tech stuff. It's like dumpster diving but the dumpsters come to me.
Anyway, I did have an original Pi, but because I use the memory for several ramdisks to stop the SD card being written so much, I ended up with barely any RAM. Not an issue though since terminal programs are essentially free in terms of resources.
