PC Magazine - USA (2019-08)

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ickling the fancy of tinkerers, the Raspberry Pi is a tiny circuit board

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access to the building blocks of computer programming—from making

an app to controlling a hobbyist robot—for the price of a good dinner. The

newest model, the Raspberry Pi 4, still promises all of this, but it adds the

tantalizing possibility of serving as a basic desktop PC with minimal setup

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mean it’s still not a realistic substitute for an actual PC. Prospective buyers who

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getting the Pi 4 board by itself.

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