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One of the key drivers behind the Raspberry Pi project has said there won’t be any new spec Pi hardware this year, as he doesn’t want to abandon current users and make them feel like they’ve already been gazumped by newer models. What an amazing rarity in the tech world.
However, there will be some sort of updated Pi hardware to look forward to further down the line. Raspberry Pi designer Eben Upton told ZDNet: “There will be a successor at some point. I think 2013 isn’t the right time to do it. I don’t want to orphan the 700,000 Raspberry Pis that are already out there.”
Instead of pumping out an octo-core Pi or some such nonsense next month, Upton prefers to focus on the software that drives the current Pi hardware, with short-term performance boosts coming from more efficient coding. Upton’s had people specifically working on the Linux support, saying he’s been paying users to “find out why it’s slow and make it fast.” [ZDNet via Engadget]
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I suppose hardware upgrades when the very point of the divide was minimal hardware would be a bit odd.
Dammit, *device.
“short-term performance boosts coming from more efficient coding”
That in itself should be one of the major aims of the Raspberry Pi project – not to just teach people to code, but teach them to code efficiently on a low-powered device.
There’s no point whatsoever in AMD, Intel, ARM, etc… making huge strides in processing capacity if it’s negated almost entirely by inefficient code.
the exact reasoning that ruined many good Android phones
I think that’s a very fair and noble way of looking at their product
BUTTTTTT……. i do think there should be a Dual Core 1Ghz version to give it a lot more potential
Doubling the RAM to half a gig on the model B should give it a bit more grunt going forward. The broadcom chip is what they are working with with the Pi and I expect this to remain the case in the future.
Well, Broadcom have got a lot of chips available, i guess it’s just a question of price to keep the costs low for RPI and for the people who buy them
To be fair, if they did introduce a Dual Core 1Ghz processor, it would cause laziness as developers wouldn’t have to cut down on code to make it work. Android will work perfectly fine on DC 1Ghz, but on 800Mhz Single Core, people will have to struggle and cut down the code to make it run at a normal pace, which is what RPI were looking for. Therefore i reject my above statement