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Another new Raspberry? - Brian Beuken - 11-15-2018
Well not quite, its a cut down version restoring the old model A brand. But still nice, only 512MB though, so a bit limiting as a game machine.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-3-model-a/
Whats much more interesting is the confirmation that the next Raspberry will indeed be a new system, I can't wait to hear about that, but I'm sure we'll find out in March 2019.
RE: Another new Raspberry? - jomoengineer - 11-18-2018
The new board does look nice and would be handy for folks looking for smaller footprint for a Maker project but the reduced memory might have an impact with performance. However, it has the same BCM2837B0 as the 3 B+ and the same Videocore iV GPU as the B+. It does have a mini HDMI connection rather than the full size one on the B+ but that is understandable considering the size of the board.
The MagPi Benchmark between the Zero, 3A+ and 3B+ is interesting and shows the 3A+ performing better than the 3B+ in some instances.
https://raspi.tv/2018/new-raspberry-pi-model-3b-1-4-ghz-330mbit-ethernet-802-11ac-poe
There is an update to Raspbian that was announced which I assume is due to the 3 A+,
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-update-november-2018/
RE: Another new Raspberry? - Brian Beuken - 11-19-2018
I suspect the slight variations are due to minute issues with SD or RAM speed and comms interaction taking a priority during the test, Even 2 identical 3B+'s would be unlikely to give the exact same results. A few points variation does not really show any real gain.