I'm not sure many hobbyists were crying out for a more powerful SoC, from a not particularly open-source-friendly vendor like broadcom, and which requires an active cooler, to compete on specs with a bunch of no-name boards with poor support and documentation, but I'm sure there were plenty of purchasing departments that were
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Raspberry Pi is really the Broadcom Devboard. I wish more people worked on Asus Tinkerboard 2 support (and that getting into kernel dev/just grokking Armbian's build system wasn't overwhelming...).
I'm really glad I got my 4B for turning into an emulation station before all the proud announcements of cops on staff and monitoring software and stuff.
It seems I got mine just before they went off the deep end. I really just wanted an emulation "Console" I could hook a good controller into on my big TV.
I’ve wanted “pi but with a decent mobile GPU” for years, but admittedly A) I’m weird, and B) not sure if “4X GPU perf increase” actually means “decent”, or if 4 x Basically Nothing is still Basically Nothing
…although PCIe support does raise the incredibly funny possibility of plugging a 4090 into it
yeah, jeff geerling (the video host) has been one of the guys trying to get desktop GPUs to work on the pi and the answer is "still doesn't work, but it's maybe getting closer"
also pretty much all of the other SBCs have arm's mali mobile GPUs instead of the broadcom videocore, if that's helpful
last I looked into this, the best available option for graphics on low-cost SBCs is technically an Apple TV lmao
On the other hand, there's finally a power button on board, so, really, who can say
