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RPi Model A or B?

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Former Member over 11 years ago

Last year I purchased what I thought was a Model-A Raspberry Pi from Element-14/Newark (US). Since I later had a project that needed a Model-B, I bought one of those also, a few weeks ago.

 

Recently, I was checking out the differences between the two models and found that, according to various sources, The Model-B has 2 x USB ports (1 on the Model-A) and an Ethernet port (none on the Model-A) as well as a memory size difference.

 

Now my "Model-A" has both an Ethernet port and two USB ports so I'm confused. Is it, in fact a Model-B (which I didn't think was around when I bought the first one)? Is my information on the model differences wrong? I would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this and clear up my confusion.

 

Also, what's the easiest way to check the amount of memory?

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    0 charlesb255 over 11 years ago

    Just to let you know, the way you tell the difference between the 256meg and the 512meg is that the 512meg has mounting holes

    and the 256meg does not.

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    0 rew over 11 years ago in reply to charlesb255

    Not true...

     

    The "upgrade" to the PCB with the mounting holes came first. A few (thousand) of those were made with 256Mb RAM.

     

    Then the upgrade to 512Mb RAM was done. There was a small period with REV2 PCBS (with mouting holes) and only 256Mb RAM.

     

    But yes, chances are that with mounting holes has 512Mb RAM, and without has only 256.

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    0 rew over 11 years ago in reply to charlesb255

    Not true...

     

    The "upgrade" to the PCB with the mounting holes came first. A few (thousand) of those were made with 256Mb RAM.

     

    Then the upgrade to 512Mb RAM was done. There was a small period with REV2 PCBS (with mouting holes) and only 256Mb RAM.

     

    But yes, chances are that with mounting holes has 512Mb RAM, and without has only 256.

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