I guess with the rise of ARM, Microsoft will have to commit itself now to the new era!!
This is just meant to be informative, I doubt that this setup makes sense yet!!
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Very informative! 8 gigs wow, I may need to buy one. Have you tried latest ARC if it works?
I did not install Windows, I am currently running Gentoo on my Raspberry Pi 4
https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit
This is neat headway for the Raspberry pi hackers out there to keep themselves busy. Unfortunately, the raspberry pi 4 is about the same speed as my pentium pro from 1996. For the similar price, you can get a rock pi x or atomic pi and run a real cpu. Using any GUI on the pi 4 is insanely frustratingly slow. The Pi started off many years ago as a neat little budget $25 hobby computer for tinkerers. Today, they cost the same as a REAL single board computer with a REAL intel cpu and have a fraction of the processing speed. There's no advantage to a Pi 4 in this day of age, unless someone is unaware of the very competitive SBC's alternatives out there
But at 8 Gig Ram that is double what my Latte Panda has ,if the price is super high then not worth it anymore, I do love the speed on my 4 gig ram Panda though. I use it just as often as my desktop Pc with 8 core CPU and 8 gig ram.
Why do you think 8gb ram will help over cpu speed? CPU speed is how FAST the processor can calculate and run programs. My ARC running camera, navigation, intel realsense, lidar, and a bunch of sensors and more is taking 120mb of RAM.
The Intel cpu also is not a risc architecture like the Pi. so the intel cpu contains more instructions that OS' have been reliant on for years. Ports of x86 and amd64 code to arm has to emulate the intel cpu features. The bare throughput of the ARM seems comparable with an intel cpu until you start giving it real things to do, like run a program. ARM is low power and that's why it is great for mobile devices. The laws of thermal dynamics states there is no free energy - and processing is energy of resistance managed by transistors. The pi is just not a worth-while competitor anymore against similar priced SMBs
Also, with your latte panda or Rock Pi/X, you can run off SSD for even faster speed. Sorry but the raspberry pi is not a great computer for the price anymore.
Oh one other thing to remember is that a raspberry pi 4 is cpu made for phones ARM BCM2711 @ 1800 MHz (4 cores)
The Rock Pi X is a full-fledged desktop cpu Intel Atom x5-Z8350 @ 1920 MHz (4 cores)
They both requiring extensive cooling and USB-C power
The problem with bigger brother mini pc such as my Latte panda is when you try to start it with less Amp hour batteries,cheaper,they just do not have enough power to start up computer. While the computers with less Amp requirement will start up on discount battery power. For me to run my Panda on robot I had to buy 99 dollar rc battery 7.4 Lipo 5000 which means 5 Amp hour if I'm not mistaken. The 8.4 Nimh 3000 just could not get panda to even boot.This is why I am always looking for something with less current needed but enough Ram to run Robot apps. That said I still love the Latte Panda Arduino all in one.I do understand it is the actual CPU that is important too.
You’ll have the same experience with the pi 4 for power consumption. The pi needs a lot of juice as well