Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, June 24th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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The Raspberry Pie 4 launched this morning with a faster CPU, faster

GPU dual 4K monitor support up to 4 gigabytes of RAM

gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 a.

Wi-Fi, USB 3, Bluetooth 5, all with the entry-level model starting at $35.

You might know the Raspberry Pie as that tiny little bare-bones computer that people have turned

into everything from cell towers to supercomputers to game consoles. For the first time ever there are three

different models. $35 for a one gigabyte of RAM Raspberry Pie, $45

for a two gigabytes and $55 for 4 gigabytes of RAM.

Quote, it's roughly three times as powerful as its predecessor, Raspberry Pie 3 plus,

and around 40 times as powerful as the original Raspberry Pie from 2012.

So said Matt Richardson, Executive Director North America of the Raspberry Pie Foundation

in an email to Vice. But Richardson outlined how much

more ambitious the Foundation is thinking with this latest version of the

Raspberry Pie. In short, they think this little credit card

size computer is finally ready to become an actual fully capable PC

replacement. Quote, one feature that wasn't widely requested but which we felt was important was

dual display support, Richardson said. If you look around our office, almost everyone is using

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