raspberry pi 2 review
Hi everyone. So today we're taking a look
at the Raspberry Pi Mark 2, otherwise known as simply the Raspberry Pi 2.
Now obviously Raspberry have done a phenomenal job over the last few years
really building out the offering for the Raspberry Pi
and what you can do with it. But it was starting to feel a little long in the
tooth. That raspberry pi 2 review
single-core processor, 512 of RAM, it really wasn't
suitable for modern projects especially if those projects happen to
involve a number of different stacks running on that single
Pi. So with the Raspberry Pi 2
they've looked to make a correction and a correction that will set them in
very, very good stead for the next three years at least.
The Raspberry Pi 2 moves us to a quad-core processor backed up with one
gig of RAM. Now, when you actually look at the board things haven't changed that
much.
This is still the B-plus form factor, four USB ports and so on, but the memory
has been split out of the CPU raspberry pi 2 review
now residing on the back of the board as a separate chip. But the profile
and the size and the physical dimensions and the locations of all the ports are identical.
Essentially this is a B+ board just a damn sight faster.
So how much faster? Well,
Raspberry Pi are saying it's six times faster based on
benchmarks. That's fine. That gives us a line in the sand but
ultimately benchmarks are synthetic and they're not really going to tell us how this device
really performs in the real world. So having put the raspberry pi 2 review
Raspberry Pi 2 through its paces for around the last week we can tell you
very clearly that this is the fastest Raspberry Pi ever released.
That was kind of to be expected but when we're talking about booting into the x interface
in under 20 seconds it's quite a remarkable achievement.
Browsing around the interface, using applications, browsing the web,
playing back media, everything works incredibly snappy here,
you almost feel like you're using a full-size computer.
It's quite remarkable how much of a difference that quad
core and one gig of RAM really does make to the Raspberry Pi
ecosystem. I can certainly see a lot of projects now being
much more easy to put together and keep running successfully
now we have a lot more RAM available. But also those,
that quad core processor really does open up the parallel processing
opportunities. raspberry pi 2 review
No longer are we seeing the Raspberry Pi getting bogged down,
doing, well, what it needs to do. Now it seems to be a case that there's
always plenty of extra performance available exactly when you need it.
It's going to be very interesting to see how this kind of
develops over this next year, especially with Microsoft saying they're going to be
quickly bring the Windows 10 command line interface the
PowerShell directly to the Raspberry Pi. Does mean we won't be seeing a
fully fledged Windows as it were but certainly the
fact that Microsoft and Ubuntu are now both able to get their distributions
up and running on the Raspberry Pi is going to open things up massively for
makers
everywhere. The price remains unchanged
which is another major plus point in the Raspberry Pi's favour.
Picking these up for around £30 including VAT
is an absolute bargain, it really is, and the future of
ultraportable maker computer systems has never been rosier.
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