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head over to the studio and dive in
So at 9 a.m. in the UK while we were all
sleeping this morning the Raspberry Pi
Foundation announced the Raspberry Pi 4
model B this is an upgrade to their
previous line the 3b and 3b plus if
you're not sure what a Raspberry Pi is
it's a single board computer that
generally cost around thirty five
dollars that can be plugged into things
that interact with the outside world
let's say you want to control a motor or
let's say you want to get temperature
data from your refrigerator and you want
to put that out on the Internet a
Raspberry Pi computer is a great thing
to be able to do that type of a project
with what's exciting about this launch
is it's not just a board it's a board
and a number of official accessories
which up until this point Raspberry Pi
had not been producing in mass when
talking with the CEO Eben Upton and the
Pi Foundation they seemed very excited
about the 4 gigabyte option as a
potential to really let the Raspberry Pi
stretch its legs and what it can do now
with 4 gigabytes you'll be able to do
things like web browsing checking email
and doing some basic 3d games as well as
learning to program at speeds that you
weren't able to do before with the
previous boards the 3B+ this makes the
Raspberry Pi a real contender for a
desktop solution we're really excited
here at micro Center to see what you the
maker are going to create we can't wait
to see what you do in terms of gaming
what you do in terms of Internet of
Things projects or if you do start to
use this as a desktop solution to check
your email and browse the web
alright let's dive right in and take a
look at the differences between the
Raspberry Pi 4 and the Raspberry Pi 3B+
with the Raspberry Pi 4 you're going to
see that you still have your 40 pin GPIO
so that you can interact with the
outside world doing things like
controlling motors or taking temperature
feeds you're gonna still have that same
composite video and audio output to be
able to plug into an old let's say tube
television or CRT television you're
still gonna have your same camera and
display outputs so the old touchscreen
and the old version 2 camera are going
to work with this board we now have a
USB C port from the old micro B port USB
C which
is capable of higher amperage so at 3
amps now we can now power a full Gigabit
Ethernet port that's really exciting for
people that are running Pi servers to be
able to transfer data speeds higher than
they've been before what's very very
very exciting about this board which we
haven't met it up until this point is
the dual output of micro HDMI we used to
have on the model 3B+ just a single
standard HDMI output up until this point
we haven't been able to run dual
displays off of a Raspberry Pi so what
this is going to allow you to do with
two outputs is do desktop applications
that would run across two monitors and
the big benefit to these is now they're
capable of running 4k you can get 60 fps on a single channel or
if you're running two monitors you can
get up to 4k with 30 fps
on the front you're also going to see
that the USB ports and the ethernet have
switched around a little bit now if you
can see the blue on these middle ports
you probably know that that's USB 3.0
meaning that now we're actually going to
get some higher speed transfers of data
to and from our Raspberry Pi this again
is very exciting for those users that
are looking to do servers that is
copying data from the Ethernet to a USB
Drive or to an external hard drive so
with the addition of 3.0 and the power
necessary to do Gigabit Ethernet true
Gigabit Ethernet you now have the
availability to process data a lot
faster and on the top of the board you
can see that the chips for the most part
haven't changed you still have your main
processor here which is a Broadcom you
still have your Wi-Fi and bluetooth up
here the Wi-Fi is 2.4 and 5 gigahertz as
well as Bluetooth 5.0 which is an
upgrade from the previous Bluetooth 4.2
we also still have Bluetooth Low Energy
on this chip over here you'll see the
actual RAM module so with the old
Raspberry Pi model 3B+ we had a 1.4
gigahertz quad-core processor now with
the Raspberry Pi 4 we're getting a 1.5
gigahertz processor while that may not
seem like a big upgrade the big news
here is that we're now get
three variants of memory so your old 3B+
might have had one gigabyte of RAM
you now have the opportunity to stick
with that 1GB but also move up
to a 2GB and a 4GB
you still have your power over ethernet
pins up here allowing you to add an
additional hat so that you can power and
control your Raspberry Pi over just the
Ethernet port without the need of a USB
power supply as with the previous model
B plus three the SD card slot is still
located on the back as of right now when
this board launches there will be a
version of NOOBS 3.1 which will include
an installation for raspbian 2 now with
all of these modifications with the new
ports and with the shuffling around of
old ports what you might be thinking is
will my old case work and most likely it
won't unless you have a very open case
that stacks or that leaves access very
widely on the side you're not going to
be able to use your old case with this I
mean maybe if you take a dremel out and
you start hacking away you might get
away with it but we don't necessarily
suggest that or do we because of their
makers maybe we do but don't worry here
at Micro Center we've got you and your
Raspberry Pi covered so we'll be
bringing in the new official case as
well as some other cases from
manufacturers but in the interim to get
you going we're going to offer a link in
the description below to a 3d printable
case file so that you can put some
protection on your Pi very quickly now
that we've talked about the difference
between the Raspberry Pi 4 and the 3 B+
let's actually get the Pi 4 hooked up to
two monitors the first thing I'm going
to do is take my keyboard and mouse
input from the official Raspberry Pi
keyboard and mouse and plug it in to one
of the USB 2.0 ports
the next thing I'm going to do is take
my first monitor and plug it into the
HDMI zero port on the right and my
second monitor to the HDMI one port on
the left I'm now ready to supply via USB
C the power necessary to get this guy
running guys this is pretty exciting we
just let the pi4 boot up and it is now
on dual monitors we've got two monitors
here running a ton of programs for a
Raspberry Pi and I have to say it's it's
running very well I'm able to type no
problem I'm able to move Windows around
without lag the YouTube video is running
very smoothly so no issues there and
I've got a couple of tabs here I've also
got micro center's website up showing all
the best deals normally I wouldn't run
this many programs on my computer at any
given time but it's really really
exciting to see that the Raspberry Pi
foundation put in the care and effort to
provide a product and an operating system
that can now really do some desktop
style computing if you guys are
interested in trying out the Raspberry
Pi 4 as a desktop solution for
yourselves make sure to keep your eyes
out for the official Raspberry Pi 4
desktop kit this will include everything
you need except for the monitors to do a
full dual monitor setup make sure to
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really excited to see what you the
makers are going to create with this
I'll be hanging out in the comments
below so make sure to add your questions
and your thoughts and any project ideas
you may have thanks for watching we
can't wait to see what you'll make
