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#1 Something for the weekend...

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Music server...
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#2 Re: Something for the weekend...

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OK, Nick, I'll bite as my reliable computer expert, engineer and advisor is currently on holiday. Why would the RPi 3 be better than an RPi 2 as a basic music server?
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Greg wrote:OK, Nick, I'll bite as my reliable computer expert, engineer and advisor is currently on holiday. Why would the RPi 3 be better than an RPi 2 as a basic music server?
Not a huge difference - just its got built in WiFi & BlueTooth, is between 2 and 4 times faster (1.2GHz, Quad core Arm 8)

Same price as the old one, same form factor, but less fiddly bits to add (cos they are there by default) and faster.
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Thank you, your reply was rather expected. As I use wired Internet and have no use for Bluetooth, is there any advantage?
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Greg, no.......
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Yep. If you're wired, no difference except a lot faster...

Really quick though - perfectly acceptable desktop PC type performance from a credit card sized SBC.

Still only 1Gb of ram though..
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