Daniel James  wrote:
> 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.
>

It does, considerably!

Thank you,

bob prohaska

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