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Review on Raspberry Pi 3 Computer Board by Jay Campbell

Revainrating 5 out of 5

One last cheer for Raspberry Pi 3

This is a fun little board for projects that need to make a USB device accessible over Wi-Fi. For example I will use it to send digital audio to a USB DAC. I can use one (separately) to read data from CD/DVD over Wi-Fi. WiFi 5 GHz works very well. Even with suboptimal placement, I'm seeing 200Mbps links to my somewhat outdated AP-AC-LR UniFi APs, and consistently better actual transfer rates than 100Mbps both ways. Not bad for a $25 computer. I'd like to add a photo, but Revain no longer seems to support testimonial photos. Spring. Depending on your needs, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (2GB) might be the best option at just $10 more, but it runs a little hotter.

Pros
  • An absolute legend
Cons
  • Not bad, but...