In article , Bob prohaska wrote:
> Now that it's been out for a while, does anybody have a
> comparision of the Pi4 to the Pi3 as a platform for web
> browsers like chromium, firefox and any others that come
> to mind?

I have a 4GB Pi4 and I spent a bit of time playing with it as a desktop
machine, mostly to see how the temperature behaved.

I've previously tried using Chromium to browse on a Pi 3B (3B+?), and
found the experience painful to the point of giving up. The 3B is a
nice little machine, but modern websites are so big and so heavily
scripted that it can't really cope.

With the 4 I forgot I was using Pi rather than my normal desktop
machine. It just worked. Whether that's down to the faster CPU or to
having an almost sensible amount of RAM I don't know -- I haven't tried
a 1GB Pi4. The 4GB Pi4 is certainly dramatically better than the Pi3.

The temperatures weren't too upsetting either, but better with a
fanshim than without.

Hope that helps.

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Cheers,
 Daniel.

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