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RASPBERRY PI 4 LAUNCHES
The vision behind Raspberry Pi 4 is to make a rich multimedia PC experience accessible to everyone"
Cambridge company Raspberry Pi is celebrating the release of its fourth- generation model, promising the ‘world’s most affordable multimedia PC’. Representing a significant step- up in terms of speed and capability, Raspberry Pi 4 is a complete desktop computer with ambitions of competing in the global PC market – and it costs less than £30. The latest edition of this popular single-board computer can drive two independent 4K screens simultaneously and has three times the processing power and four times the multimedia performance of its predecessor, allowing users to surf, stream, edit images and even create their own apps in ultra HD for the fraction of the cost of a traditional PC. Customers can add in an optional desktop kit, which comes fully equipped with a Pi 4, mouse, keyboard, SD card, power supply, cables and case – all you need for a fully-
functioning PC is a monitor. As with all Pis, the product comes with a range of programming languages, from Scratch to Python and C++, giving users the tools they need to become developers. “The vision behind Raspberry Pi 4 is to make a rich multimedia PC experience accessible to everyone. By offering a ‘just right’ level of performance for most users, we’ve been able to do this at roughly a tenth the cost of a traditional desktop PC,” said co-founder Eben Upton. “This is a significant development for the PC market as a whole. Raspberry Pi is already the bestselling British computer of all time. In 2018 Q4, Raspberry Pi 3+ and earlier models accounted for 2.5% of the global PC market. The improved capabilities of Raspberry Pi 4 should allow us to address a much larger fraction of that market.” raspberrypi.org
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