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A New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Has Arrived With Bluetooth 4.2 and Dual-Band Wi-Fi For $25 (pcworld.com)
Raspberry Pi has introduced a new version of one of its most popular models just in time to stuff your stocking: the Model A+. And this time around, it's even more attractive. From a report: The Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ costs $25, $5 more than the previous generation, but has a lot more going for it. Just like the top-of-the-line Model B+, the new Model A+ has a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor, and you'll also get dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4GHz + 5 GHz), a feature that was missing from the previous A+. And you'll have to use it, since the A+ doesn't have an Ethernet port. It does, however, have Bluetooth 4.2 on board. For $10 less than the $35 Model B+, you'll also only get a single USB port (versus four on the B+) as well as 512MB of RAM (versus 1GB on the B+). But otherwise, the devices are identical, with a full-size HDMI port, CSI camera port, DSI display port, stereo output and composite video port, and a micro SD port. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ isn't the cheapest Pi model available -- the Zero costs $5 and the Zero W costs just $10 -- but it rounds out the options nicely. The new model is available now through Raspberry Pi retailers.
The original 256M Pi1 A+ was replaced by the 512M Pi1 A+ which is still available. Farnell. CPC, RS, Allied and newark are all showing it as in-stock.
As for power draw according to https://medium.com/@ghalfacree... the idle power draw is significantly higher than an A+ but lower than any B-series pi. The full-load power draw is lower than a 3B+ but higher than everything else.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
The Pi Zero W idles around 100ma with a wifi connection going. Under load you can slow down the processor to flatten out the spikes during normal operation.
Do they still have all IO on 1 usb 2.0 bus?
They've never had all the I/O on one USB 2.0 bus. The GPIO port is native.
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