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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