“Awesome! Raspberry Pi with wireless and Bluetooth and I don't have to give up 1/4th of my USB connections. So many possibilities! Works as advertised.”
“Certainly faster. Seems sensitive to SD access speed as a believed good SD would'nt boot, but on testing it there was an SD card speed fault.
WiFi is a nice addition, as is the Bluetooth feature, but still problems with WiFi channels 12 and 13 when running Wheezy and Ubuntu Mate, probably a driver issue that will be sorted eventually. Not tried Bluetooth yet.
Overall, its roughly the same price as the RPi2 but faster with more features but same size.
What more could you ask for?.. 4 gb Memory, OctoCore CPU, SATA interface. Perhaps... 'Dreckly.
How about it Eben?”
“The Raspberry Pi 3 is the same size as the Pi 2 so if you have a case for the Pi 2 the Pi 3 will pop straight in. The similarities stop at the appearance, with the Pi 3 having built in wifi and a faster processor. The Pi 3 boots up a lots faster than any other Pi and I think I'm right in saying it is a 64 bit processor running at 32 bits so the option is there for developers to build a 64 bit OS,
There is 1 other important point, it needs the latest version of Raspbian Jessie so this means you can't just pull your memory card out of the Pi 2 and put it in the Pi 3 because it will not boot up.
With the Pi 3 at the same price as a Pi 2 it is great value for money and we'll worth buying.”
