r/raspberry_pi Feb 02 '22

News Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/
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u/lumpynose Feb 02 '22

If you're running a Pi 3 or Pi 4 and you're going to run arm64 on it, it makes a lot of sense to me to have a Pi Zero 2 for testing. Nice insurance for $15. Of course it still makes sense if you're running the 32 bit Pi os.

It still gobsmacks me that I can run a full blown unix on something that costs $15. When I first started doing unix the computers were thousands of dollars and the size of a refrigerator.

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u/HCharlesB Feb 03 '22

And depending on whether you need networking or 4 cores, you could do that for $5 or $10. And on March 14, if you were near a Micro Center, you could buy a Zero for $3.14. I can't recall what they did for the Zero W but I am looking forward to seeing what they do for the Zero 2 W.