[conspire] Oh yeah? Raspberry Pi 4 Model B arrives with up to 4GB RAM

[Rick Moen]

Available starting today:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

1GB RAM model costs $35
2GB RAM model costs $45
4GB RAM model costs $55
(The RAM is non-upgradeable, as before.)

That's actually starting to look almost like a serious computer, limited
mainly by the usual woeful I/O insufficiency:  For mass storage, you're
basically stuck with using a microSD card.  It has the same USB2 stuff
but now also a USB-C port to supply inbound power, a pair of USB3
ports, and the same sort of GigE port and onboard Bluetooth/wireless.
Instead of standard HDMI, this one has a pair of microHDMI ports.

As with the RPi3, if you take the path of least resistance and go with
the Raspbian distro, you still end up with a rather kooky setup of an
ARMv8-type processor running 32-bit userland by default.  Raspbian isn't 
likely to move to pure 64-bit ('aarch64') in the medium future, but some
other distros such as Fedora ARM do install as real aarch64.

Prices above don't include:
o  Pretty beefy 5.1V / 3.0A DC PSU on the USB-C port
o  microSD card
o  keyboard, mouse
o  video cable(s) with microHDMI plugs
o  case

Still not a real computer.  ;->