What is the Raspberry PI 4 Model B?

Steven Rescigno
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR
2 min readAug 4, 2023

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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, image by author

For those who do not know, the Raspberry Pi 4 is an ARM single board process that can run many packages and software. The demand for these mini computers is high and I was fortunate to get my hands on one.

This mini computer is very powerful and it is said to be used in many corporate environments for the techies interested in learning about programming and hardware.

So are you a developer/engineer or maker? Well you should definitely own a raspberry pi. Without diving head first into the makers world of technology you can not grow into better software engineer.

These little PCs are extremely powerful and very efficient and is very capable of large tasks.

You have a few options in RAM on this little board. First you can try the LPDDR4 RAM with options 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB.

You also will need to get a few accessories like a small micro-SD card, a monitor and a keyboard.

Here are a few of the same basics in power consumption for the raspberry PI 4 B Model, the raspberry pi at Idle will pull around 540 mA (2.7 W) Watts.

While the system is running it can get up to about 1010 mA (5.1 W) Watts. This means you can have a very powerful single board computer for very low wattage.

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