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Raspberry Pi - Hardware Flaws and Fixups?

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Several people have commented on the hardware design of the Raspberry Pi.  Some are buried in other topics so please post your comments here.  I'll try my best to answer questions about the design decisions we made.  The Raspberry Pi is not perfect, never will be.  I've always found that perfect designs have a habit of never getting built, engineers are always a bit guilty of that, but I had Eben phoning/emailing me every day wanting to know when it would be finished.  Also, one persons perfection is another persons nightmare.

 

e14 is the home for engineers so please contribute to make Raspberry Pi better.

 

Thanks

 

Pete

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  • I know it has probably been mentioned before, but would it be that difficult (or expensive) to increase the on board memory, which apparently is shared with the GPU anyway, up to 512 Mb.?

    This would enable certain Linux distros to run more 'smoothly' and should increase performance generally... shouldn't it?

    I am by no means a hardware 'expert', so if this a silly rerquest. then I will apologise now! image

  • in reply to Montala

    I know about the textbook Turing Machine example, but this remarkable project:

    http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%208bit  really makes the point that it is only the memory size that limits what a computer can do. The CPU just limits how *fast* it can be done.

     

    That said, for me the most distinguishing feature of the RasPi is the price. If you really need more performance, at some point you're really better off with just using a bigger system, for somewhat more $$ of course.  But, not sure where that point is exactly.

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