01-23-2021, 10:42 PM
IMO the RPi3 Model A+ is in the sweet spot of the Raspberry Pi offerings.
With 4 ARMv8 CPUs, it's powerful enough for virtually anything I throw at it on moOde 7.0.1. At the same time it's smaller than and generates much less heat than an RPi4 Model B, and costs rather less as well. Compared to it, the RPi Zero W is a wimp with its single ARMv6 CPI.
There's an RPi3A+ sitting in front of me as I type, driving the USB-BT/aptX adapter which feeds my Sennheiser headphones.
It's not a great choice for building moOde from scratch, however, because it has only 0.5GB RAM. For that I reach for an RPi4B, eitiher 2GB or 4GB, which builds fast enough that I don't feel the need to set up cross-compiles on a separate Intel Linux box. (OTOH, to build Raspberry Pi OS, I do cross compiles on my big iron.)
YMMV.
Regards,
Kent
With 4 ARMv8 CPUs, it's powerful enough for virtually anything I throw at it on moOde 7.0.1. At the same time it's smaller than and generates much less heat than an RPi4 Model B, and costs rather less as well. Compared to it, the RPi Zero W is a wimp with its single ARMv6 CPI.
There's an RPi3A+ sitting in front of me as I type, driving the USB-BT/aptX adapter which feeds my Sennheiser headphones.
It's not a great choice for building moOde from scratch, however, because it has only 0.5GB RAM. For that I reach for an RPi4B, eitiher 2GB or 4GB, which builds fast enough that I don't feel the need to set up cross-compiles on a separate Intel Linux box. (OTOH, to build Raspberry Pi OS, I do cross compiles on my big iron.)
YMMV.
Regards,
Kent
