“The device is a great little device. I have owned the first and second models and noticed a sizable performance increase between the first and second however not so much with the third.”
“Even if this board is not the most powerful at the moment (odroid c2 is stronger for the same range of price) what is most interesting are the built in wifi, the mipi csi2 connectors, and h264 compression easily accessible”
“Hi! I am running a long-term math simulations on my three RPi B3 and also one B2. I would like to say that B2 is hanging from time to time and so I have to restart it every second-third day. But all three B3 are very stable and no hanging so far over a few weeks already. So I think that B3 is a good and robust product even when the CPU is heavily loaded (all 4 cores are busy all time, ~192Mb of RAM used in total).”
“While I haven't done anything spectacular with my little bundle of silicon and fiberglass, it's amazing that it can serve up television programs and eventually replace my small space heater/PVR I built about 8 years ago.
PiHut was a breeze to work with. They're my British NewEgg friends.”
“I am using the pi3 for retropie gaming, in particular the zx spectrum emulation, the inbuilt bluetooth connects to my recreated zx spectrum flawlessly, its all the retro fun with the technology of today, thousands of games on the pi and controlled by the rubber dead flesh keyboard.
I have also used osmc (Kodi) on it and the built in wifi is more than fast enough for full 1080p streaming with absolutely no lag.
One tip, buy the proper power supply, normal ones dont cut it, you need that extra .2v and .5amp to make the most of it!
Best Pi ever.”
“Pi 3 is a great step up in the Pi family. Extra onboard hardware saves having to use up so many USB ports and probably the need for a powered USB hub. We just need to wait a little while for the developers to catch up with these new features to make full use of the potential.”
