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Raspberry Pi 4 is here!

2019-08-01

Categories: raspberry-pi  
Tags: raspberry-pi  

Good, news, Raspberry Pi 4 is here, 9-12 months ahead of schedule! It is the much-awaited redesign from 40nm to 28nm silicon, and with it boasts a boost in performance more similar to desktop PC levels.

20190731/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
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Unfortunately, a notable caveat is that Raspberry Pi 4 does not support network boot quite yet. On the other hand, a great advantage is that it’s USB power port is USB on-the-go, so anything you can do with a Raspberry Pi Zero, like “memory program” download a boot image, you can also do with a Raspberry Pi 4.

How did I stumble upon this new knowledge? Well, as you were just reading in my previous blog articles, I was searching how to get the serial number of a Raspberry Pi, and then I stumbled across the Raspberry Pi license key generator, which noted that MPEG-2 license keys will not work with Raspberry Pi 4 since it does not have the necessary hardware. Wait, what? Raspberry Pi 4 is already out? Indeed it is.

20190731/http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/

Yes, I know, I know, I was over a month late to the party, but I still found out in a somewhat reasonable amount of time.