Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ brings more compute power to small DIY devices

For years, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has churned out two primary types of small computers: less powerful ones sized like a deck of cards, and more powerful ones closer to two card decks stacked up. Today, the Foundation has worked its magic once again with the release of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, which brings the horsepower of its most recent two-deck solution into a much smaller form factor.

Beloved by hobbyists, the earlier Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is a full Linux-compatible computer with a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor, dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, an HDMI port for video, and a micro SD slot for storage. The Model A+ preserves all of these features, making only one key spec change: It includes 512MB of LPDDR2 RAM, rather than its predecessor’s 1GB.