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New Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless Launching Tomorrow

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Also was on the inquirer but got removed, still showing on Google top stories though:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3005436/raspberry-p...

Same here: http://www.trustedreviews.com/raspberry-pi-zero-w-review

Must be coming tomorrow! No FCC docs curiously...

Cached version - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wjfI6iX...

So why would I buy this instead of an OrangePi PC ($15) or an OrangePi Zero ($8.99)? With the latter, I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it, and I'll get 40MB/s unlike the Raspi's 4 to 5MB/s, plus both are fully libre hardware and have much more CPU grunt than this Raspi (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.2Ghz vs one ancient ARMv6 core at 1Ghz).

No idea. Was just trying to spread the news as it's been leaked and the pi foundation mafiosos are trying to squash the leak.

Guess pi is better supported than orange pi though and better software support

Not really, you can run unmodified Debian on either of those boards, same for Arch & most other distros. The chip in the Zero will never be able to do that since its ARMv6, plus your paying a premium for it.

My last experience with a Raspi 3 and all the broken packages in Raspbian just killed the idea of buying anything requiring I use closed, broken stuff, as its a nightmare to work with.

Good point! Are they as fast? And reliable from hardware point of view?

Much faster than a Raspberry Pi 3, I can tell the difference between the two running the same software attached to a large touchscreen. I've got a few dozen OrangePi PC boards going on over a year of being deployed, no issues with any of them yet.

Cool. Got a link to some good vendors?

Yeah, I'd just buy it from Xunlong off Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1553371

The OrangePi PC Plus is pretty good with the onboard eMMC and Wifi, its worth the extra $7.

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