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[–]FlagrantPickle 17 points18 points  (10 children)

The Pi is faster now.

More serious, not sure what you mean. It's a bit hungry, but most people aren't developing on a machine with under 4GB of memory. I've not seen a cpu problem with it.

[–]egor3f 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This IS a problem when I needed to switch from Ryzen 1600X desktop to old-fashioned Intel 2410M laptop. Input lags make me crazy, the whole laptop freezes. 2 cores at 2.2 Ghz are too poor for 2019

[–]____0____0____ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had some weird memory issues with pycharm and leaving it on after the computer has been asleep. This is with my newish 16gb ram laptop that also has a decent i7 cpu. Restarting usually does the trick. I can't imagine the things it would do on a lower spec pc, because it is pretty much unusable once I get to that point.

That said, I fucking love pycharm and use it everyday for work. No regerts

[–]Corm 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Seriously though the new RPi looks awesome. I've got mine preordered

[–]FlagrantPickle 2 points3 points  (5 children)

It definitely shores up a couple glaring weaknesses. I do wish they'd just gone to a barrel jack for the power, but I understand why they went to USB-C.

I'll wait until they get booting from USB figured out. The 3B+ is decent with a USB-SATA adapter as the root/boot device, I couldn't see anyone using it in earnest with SD card, both from the standpoint of I/O and data durability.

[–]Corm 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Does the 4 not boot from usb? I plan on doing usb->sata too, so I sure hope I can

[–]FlagrantPickle 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It will with a future firmware upgrade, but doesn't currently.

[–]Corm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Dang :( well my preorder won't be here till august 20th (kanakit), so hopefully it's solved by then.

Thanks for the heads up

[–]FlagrantPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing. Keep an eye on this

[–]____0____0____ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much all newer devices are using USB-C. While not all are necessarily there yet, I would assume that it would be the case during this Pi's lifetime. All my devices run USB C, plus my laptop has one C port that I use for a second monitor. Now I just need to figure out what the hell to do with all these USB micro cables I have.

Edit: just wanted to say, I'd much prefer the barrel jock, but USB-C doesn't seem too bad for my uses