PCWorld reviews the Raspberry Pi 2 #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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Brad Chacos from PCWorld reviews the Raspberry Pi 2.

Let’s cut right to the chase: This thing rocks. The new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B fixes the most glaring issues of the three-year-old original Pi, and even better, it manages to do so at the same $35 price point of its predecessor. This credit card sized-mini PC delivers a shocking amount of value for the money.

Don’t head into this thinking the RP2 is some sort of radical leap forward, however. As Apple has done with the iPhone, the Raspberry Pi 2 is an evolutionary tweaking of the first model’s then-revolutionary concept. Most of the new model’s features are exactly the same as the original, which helps to ensure full backward compatibility. But the changes the Raspberry Pi Foundation did make were very welcome ones indeed.

Because the performance changes are the big difference in the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, let’s dig into that first.

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