Famous in part for its small size, the Raspberry Pi line of inexpensive computers is famously no bigger than a deck of cards, and the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B measures just 3.4 x 2.2 x 0.4 inches.

The Raspberry Pi 4 B offers 802.11ac Wi-Fi, the same as the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, but sports Bluetooth 5.0, compared to Bluetooth 4.2 on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+.

With all the necessary hardware in hand, I'm ready to try out the new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, and the latest version of the Raspbian operating system. Here are my experiences so far.

Like a Raspberry Pi Model B, the Cool Pi 4 measures 85 x 56mm (3.3″ x 2.2″) and features full-sized Ethernet and USB ports along one side, and smaller video outputs along another.

While the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ look almost identical (they measure 85 mm x 56 mm, and the board layout is similar), their input/output ports are anything but.

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Computer is the first model to use a 28nm SoC, ... H.264 decode (1080p60) and H.264 encode (1080p30); OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics; image sensor pipeline; GPIO: ...

The newly released Raspberry Pi 4 Model B mates the familiar tiny computer-on-a-board design with purportedly "ground-breaking" boosts to performance, particularly for media.

But where you can't scale up, you can scale out—and that's precisely what www.raspberrypi.org has done. The launch site for the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is mostly running on a cluster of 18 of the ...