You won't have to find some totally legit sources in order to download more RAM for your Raspberry Pi 4 anytime soon, as a new version of the Pi 4 B has been announced. With the unit's first anniversary just around the corner, a premium model has been introduced, featuring a whopping 8GB of RAM. That's double the amount of the previous "high-end" $55 4GB model, all packed neatly into that familiar size for $75, available starting today. The extra RAM doesn't change much of the Pi 4's board, though this version does sport a new power switcher that's closer to the USB-C input, otherwise leaving the rest of the internals the same as before.

To supply the slightly higher peak currents required by the new memory package, James has shuffled the power supply components on the board, removing a switch-mode power supply from the right-hand side of the board next to the USB 2.0 sockets and adding a new switcher next to the USB-C power connnector. While this was a necessary change, it ended up costing us a three-month slip, as COVID-19 disrupted the supply of inductors from the Far East.

To coincide with this new release, the Raspbian OS, now simply renamed to the Raspberry Pi OS, offers a 64-bit version currently in beta and available to download through their official site.

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[cashboxz01]

How much power does your M900 sip though? I can keep my Pi3 running all day long without batting an eye, but I think I would notice the extra consumption with a SFF PC. IMO a Celeron NUC or something like it would be a better Pi replacement, on both size, processing power and energy usage.

An i5-6500 is like 65W, so really not that much. The Pi costs about $5/year to run, and this might cost like $10 and lets take it to an unrealistic extreme and say $20/year if it's always on at 100% load that's the most it'll be. Doesn't bother me all that much tbh.

 

[FamicomHeero]

Hopefully they come out with the Raspberry Pi 5 soon because their revisions aren't really doing that much for most people. I guess they really only need to innovate at their own pace though.