RPi with 512mb Memory?

Now it's official. A 512MB Pi, and we certainly as more often than not heard it here first.

Thank you all deep miners of the Pi caverns to keep us all on the forefront of knowledge.

Ray

P.S. Dear Distro maintainers please do not suddenly make all your Pi OS distros twice as big and only suitable for the larger memory machines.

Ray Hughes wrote:

 

Now it's official. A 512MB Pi, and we certainly as more often than not heard it here first.

 

Thank you all deep miners of the Pi caverns to keep us all on the forefront of knowledge.

 

Ray

 

P.S. Dear Distro maintainers please do not suddenly make all your Pi OS distros twice as big and only suitable for the larger memory machines.

 

Pretty sure that the people here had no more idea that a 512 was imminently on the way than anywhere else. Lots of people predicting it eventually (well, obvious it was going to happen at some point), but not sure anyone predicted it so soon. Anyone can make Pi in the the sky predictions, its getting the timing right that's the important bit, and I don't reckon anyone saw this one coming so soon.

Making a distro twice as 'big' doesn't mean you need twice the memory - the kernel stays the same size (within reason) on any platform. Linux uses swap, so lower memory system will still work, but slower.

Bill.

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

Pretty sure that the people here had no more idea that a 512 was imminently on the way than anywhere else. Lots of people predicting it eventually (well, obvious it was going to happen at some point), but not sure anyone predicted it so soon. Anyone can make Pi in the the sky predictions, its getting the timing right that's the important bit, and I don't reckon anyone saw this one coming so soon.

 

Bill.

Fegus started this thread on 02-Sep-2012, based on evidence he had found on the Australian site. I don't think this counts as a pie in the sky prediction?

So your claiming an accidental website entry as evidence? Did he predict when? Like I said, any one could have predicted there was going to be a 512 version  -I saw posts on the other forum well before September about that. No-one predicted when. Just do a seach on 512MB - mentioned all over the place. Everyone assumed it was coming, no-one knew when. I read somewhere over there that these things have been in production since the move to Wales manufacturing so obviously planned for some time. They still managed to keep it mostly secret, to keep Osbourne happy! That pretty cool!

My prediction now; there will never be a 1GB version. You heard it here first! (Citation : no one makes 1GB ddr2 PoP ram, and its an old technology, so no-one ever will).

Bill

So it looks like there are already instructions on how to configure the Pi to make use of the extra memory over on the RasPi forum.

Now I just need the Pi to arrive :-)

One of my old ones will be consigned as a permanent Air print server - any thoughts on where the 512 Meg version will most show improvement over the 256 Meg version ?

Steve, I would guess the most improvement would be in multitasking. Say a multi-user webserver. In 'normal use', though, I'd expect X windows to improve markedly with multiple windows.

Overall video performance is likely to improve also as at the moment the memory allocation has to be played with to get the balance right.

Try working with the other participants on this forum Billy please, instead of against them.  Just a few hours ago you called the 512MB version "mythical", despite the mounting evidence for it, and now that it's official you're busy backpedaling with "any one could have predicted there was going to be a 512 version".  There's no need for this.

We try to cooperate here, piecing together information from many different sources because RPF is not forthcoming about what it does.  If you're not happy working with us on this then don't, but fighting against it is out of place.

Try working with the other participants on this forum Billy please, instead of against them.  Just a few hours ago you called the 512MB version "mythical", despite the mounting evidence for it, and now that it's official you're busy backpedaling with "any one could have predicted there was going to be a 512 version".  There's no need for this.

We try to cooperate here, piecing together information from many different sources because RPF is not forthcoming about what it does.  If you're not happy working with us on this then don't, but fighting against it is out of place.

@Jamodio. I was told a few days ago that this was not a place for name calling. You just called me a moron (I assume you were talking to me). Don't call me a moron, that not very nice - or are you not a very nice person? I'm pretty sure that classes as name calling anyway. Even where I'm from.

RE: 1GB RAM chip - are you sure that would work on Raspberry PI, because a quick read of the specs would indicate that it wouldn't. And I'm not convinced that device is available.

@Morgaine. A few hours ago the device was indeed mythical. It has now, with the announcement, become factual. I'm not backpedalling and I also I don't delete my old posts when I'm wrong. Mythical does not imply it doesn't exist, merely that there is not enough evidence to say that it does exist - yet. Please don't read stuff in to my posts that isn't there.

I'm not going to work with you btw. Certainly not the last two posters anyway, you're mean to people. Happy to help out with others who don't feel to need to call people Morons.

As to the Raspberry Pi Foundation not being forthcoming? Like what? Should they have told people in advance there was a move to 512MB? That would be commercial suicide. What are they not forthcoming about that would be of use for their target market? Today we learnt that there is a 512device, we also learnt that the accelerated X driver is under serious development. Thats damn straight stuff! Do you want them to tell you all their commercial stuff? Or what?

Bill (not a moron despite what Jamodio says)

The process of design, manufacture and release takes months end to end.  During that period, the 512MB version was never mythical, because mythical denotes products of the imagination which do not exist and will never exist.  In this case the 512MB version was completely tangible to RPF over that period, and to the rest of us it was a product with steadily increasing probability of existence as facts about it emerged piecemeal here and there.

This is how the community has to obtain its information by combining hints from various sources, because the Foundation's planning is not open about this.  Calling fellow members' estimates "myths" is not helpful here.