* An ongoing debate between Maurice Kinal and Tony Langdon rages on ...

 MK> With my luck I'd much rather not have to rely on it.  From what I've
 MK> read thus far I think you are smart to stick with 2.

I had a couple of RPi3's that were loads of fun and reliable, BUT the Raspian 
OS coupled with the hardware just isn't powerful enough to run any mainstream 
apps. I had Mystic and Apache running on one quite successfully, so it's good 
for just a BBS as long as you have plenty of clean power (I ended up getting a 
50W USB power adapter with 6 jacks for all the peripherals (all ran off 5V 
USB). Monitor, Cpu, Sound, cooling fan, etc. I also bought a hardware interfave 
kit for a rainy day, still in the box {chuckle}

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