"It's not in an anti-static bag - that's a bit of a shock!" no pun intended? lol

Very nice vid Mr. Barnatt! I really enjoy each and every one of your vids. You are my favorite because you put humor in your vids which really makes my day. Thank you very much :)

Love the video Chris, always a pleasure to watch, i totally agree with the desires for specs at the end

Thanks for this particular review. Your review is ‘spot on’ and I agree with you. Although it isn’t the Raspberry Pi 4 I wish for, I must say it is a step in the right direction. I look forward to any other videos on this SBC. The odds are pretty high that I may add it to my Pi collection. Thank you.

I always enjoy your review's, thanks again.

Thanks for the review. They finally got a Metal Cap on the CPU like the Tinker Board.

Thanks for the review including straightforward tests. I don't mind the shortcomings, since nothing I'm doing gets close to those performance edges. I am, though, very pleased that the RF box has come to fruition. It frees up some board real estate as well as eliminating a bunch of certification red tape.

"it's not in a anti-stacking bag, that's abit of a shock" .. thanks for making me choke on a chip lol

Delightful video Sir. I enjoyed it very much, and I am still smiling 10 minutes later:)

Another great video! Thanks yet again Chris! My kids have been running the new Pi 3B+ for a couple of weeks now and the improvements make the experience much better for them, specifically Scratch and Reading Eggs online. Like you I think it's time for USB3 and gigabit Ethernet. While I admire the ideal of a US$35 SBC I do think there is now a whole new place in the market for a new Pi at a higher price in parallel to the current Pi line, with at least 2GB RAM as well as a true 64 bit OS. We have the Pi Zero in parallel so it's not a new concept to have several models in parallel. Let's hope ....

Very tempted to buy one but im sticking with the Pi3 until Pi4 comes out, I mainly use it as a Kodi machine so it does well enough right now.

Great review. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

My birthday today + New EC video about the Pi = Pretty good start for the day.

And with that, my dreams of entering narnia have been shattered... Guess i'm just going to have to occupy myself by tinkering around with the new pi3b+!

Good work! I enjoy the puns!

I was waiting to see a video from you on this with regards to thermal performance vs the standard Pi 3, thanks for the info and that is an impressive improvement. By the way was "It's not in a anti-static bag, that's a bit of a shock" an intended pun? :)

Thank you for doing this video I know many of us have been pestering you for it , I know the gains they have made won't light the world on fire but they have managed to do all that at the same price .

Finally I was waiting for this review! :)

OMG how did you do that 8 finger crossing? I guess, that will bring the rpi4 in 2019 :))) Again, a great video as usual. All the best Chris!

Excelent review and tests as allways. Thanks!

Yet another fantastic Raspberry Pi video. I really do like the way you test these SBCs what with the bench-marking and comparison tests. I was really impressed by the thermal performance of the RPi 3B+ and I totally agree with you that I would love to see a Raspberry Pi 4 sporting true gigabyte Ethernet and USB 3, plus an upgrade to the RAM. Perhaps 2Gb?

Another excellent and well put together review. Thanks. I really hope you do a heatsink’ed comparison video in the near future. :-)

Great Review. Thanks Chris, I was waiting to see your take on the RbPi 3B+. Can't wait to see the videos where you will test the 3B+ with some heath sinks. I bought mine last week... they charged me a little more than 40€ but I wanted to test the new ethernet port.

Because of your reviews and a lack of technological progress with the Raspberry platform I just bought an ODROID-XU4. In your comparison review you contributed the performance differences with a less developed OS. The OS is much easier to modify and will develop rapidly due to the open source concept. I therefore bought the much more powerful ODROID-XU4. Thank you and keep the content flowing!

I've been using my Pi 3 B+ since I got it the day after launch day and despite the small step up I'm really pleased with it. Add an USB SSD drive and change the boot from SD card to SSD and it's a very usable desktop computer for general purpose work.

Thanks for the review, Chris, glad Stanley the Knife made an appearance :) The feature I'm hoping for in the Pi 4 is 2 Gb of DD3 memory instead of the 1 Gb of DDR2.

Very good comments on the B+, let's hope they can adopt some of the higher performance of the Asus Tinker board before the Tinker board gets more traction in the hobby area, The Asus Tinker board did not workout so well with my attempt to get it to work with DireWolf as a TNC for APRS. However, I did turn it into a nice desktop PC for web, email, PCB design, and many other things that work around USB ports and Linux. One thing that the Tinker board excelled at that did work for me, was when I connect a SSD drive to it, and it just took off. I opened a mkv rip of a Blueray movie and the output to my 32" Samsung HDTV was blue ray quality, I was blown away by the great detail and sharpness of the image. It was the only thing I did that got the processor a bit hot to the touch. So I got a small 12v muffin fan and ran it with 5v, and stuck it on top. The small fan in the case I had would never keep that thing as cool as I would like it. The Tinker board audio control needs some work. I can get audio to my HDTV through HDMI, but not reliably to the self powered speaker connected to a 3.5mm jack on the Tinker board. I got the audio out of the 3.5mm jack once, and it was not so good, but then it stopped and I could not get it back again. The Tinker board needs more work, and their support is terrible. It's not that they are not responsive, and polite, it is that they are either idiots, or they don't understand English. It took me 5 or 6 return emails to get them to break down the 3.5mm jack to tell me what is one each ring. It was simple enough, but it is taking way to long for that, so I am afraid to ask them a really complicated question about GPIO control, which is required for DireWolf control of PTT on the radio it controls. I never got the audio to work, so I skipped going into anything more complicated.

I was in the future and zapped right back here to tell you that you were reviewing Raspberry Pi 4 =)

Thanks for the review. Hope to get one this year

Along with the 2 improvements you mentioned, I think a SATA interface would be very nice too but that's about it. As usual great video!

Great video Chris, always enjoy watching. :)

Great video as all ways, 3b+ all ready configured to boot from usb.

Hey there. Great run down and comparison. Thank you so much!

Rpi 3 B+ brings us exceptionally superior quad 8-finger-crossing as well! I cannot do that yet.

Now we can de-lid our Pis and replace the TIM with liquid metal!

Hey there Chris! Great video. The comparison was needed and it's awesome to see the new specs at the old pricing too which is wonderful. But as you were saying, they will be left behind for the enthusiast crowd but as something entry level it seems its not lacking in versatility. Anyway I have sent you an email regarding my request to be on a podcast. I hope to hear from you soon. Brett.

Great review 👍👍, greetings from 🇫🇷

A great overview and review, thank you.

Great review. I've just ordered one of these to replace my old 1st gen B+ which was struggling with MAME emulation.

USB 3 and Gigabit is not a deal-breaker for me; doubt it is for the vast majority of users. Kudos on the heat tests, thank you! A much bigger concern for the average user.

Thank You very much sir for your videos on raspberry pie. I also think that there's something genuinely charismatic in the way you speak, act etc.

Thanks for sharing, this video explained alot for me.

Wow, it looks awesome in full screen!

Well done ! Some details on the POE interface via the HAT board may have helped, because POE seems to be another key feature with this B+

I really enjoy your videos. Especially this one as I was considering getting the RPi3+ as the RPi3 that I have is too slow in performance for my tastes. So have you noticed any improvement in boot up times with the newer Raspian?

Awesome, thanks for the benchmarks too!!! :D

I love this channel so many single board computer's.

Thanks..... great review I Think Im waiting for "hopefully" a 2019 Pi 4 before I upgrade

Thank you, Chris!

Something that I have just realised about all the Raspberry modals is that they lack the standardised UART debug header (three pin serial interface). I have recently been using Banana and Orange SBCs and their inclusion of a UART header has been essential for configuration purposes.

No static bag, shocking! Right!

Your explanation of the maker boards are very nice. I do however wonder what else can be done with these boards in a usable for common cunsumer market?

Hey. Great video. I love your SBC stuff. How about a test with heatsinks on both so that we can see the raw performance, minus the effects of throttling and see if the extra clock speed equates to faster completion, or if there are other factors? Also, you could add a couple of lines to your script and it'll print out how long it takes by itself without needing a stop watch. :)

Another informative video Chris. Of course yours was not out on Pi Day, it did have your comparison benchmarks and insight on whether the 3B+ is worth getting for those of us with the 3B's. "sudo apt-get install explainingcomputers" never fails... ;)

Great channel, very thorough analysis. Got a new subscriber.

Very informative review.... concise, to the point. Love watching your videos. Do you know of a site that shows what people have done with their Pi's?

Great video! I know this is a lot off topic from single-board computers. It would be interesting to see a 'very simplified' explanation of Big O complexity and what its significance is in computers.

Hello Mr Barnatt, I have the latest version of Raspbian running on my 3b+ with a fan and heat sink and while running UKposts at 1080HD it maintains 34C in a room with ambient temperature of 24C. I am thrilled with the performance and cannot wait to see the new hats coming for the board.

looking forward to your next battle raspi 3 b+ vs asus tinker board :)

I’m puzzled with Raspberry Pi power supplies. I opted for a 5v 3A because I wanted that extra .5a though I’d rather have an official one the maximum they seem to offer is 2.5A. I’ve learned the hard way that some of the cables on sale just don’t deliver the power needed to the board specially the ones with a switch on eBay. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all these amazing tutorial videos you do. Greetings from Gibraltar 🇬🇮 🇬🇧

I ORDERED ONE THIS MORNING AND IT’S COMING ON MONDAY AND IM SO EXCITED I’VE JUST BEEN WATCHING VIDEOS ABOUT THE RASPBERRY PI ALL DAYYYYYYYYYYYY HONESTLY I’M GOING BONKERS LIKE YONKERS FOR THIS THING

Thanks for the comparison, it's not one giant leap for raspberry kind, more shuffle in the right direction

Well balanced and informative

What is really needed, Chris, is DDR3 memory, even if it's only 1Gb. It was an opportunity missed, i think. Great review though, Chris...thanks!

Very nice video, your videos are alway interesting and I love watching them.

Very interesting video amd test results. How about adding USBc? 😁 I dont own either but still enjoyed watching and learning. Thank you for another well done video! Cheers! 😎

id quite like to see some plex benchmarks for all of your boards (how many transcoded streams it could handle) maybe a future video???

As usual nice video, thank you

Great video, I was hoping for USB 3.0 also. I'm still figuring out what parts to use to make that NAS you showed us how to build. The ROCK64 is still the best for what I want. Thanks for the information...

Thanks for telling us about the Raspian update. I don't think I'm buying the B+ just yet. I will wait..

If you are comparing thermals on the Pi 3B+, perform all tests with stock heat spreader as well as after delidding the SoC. As of the delid tests, I would suggest direct heatsink on chip, Arctic Silver under the IHS and Liquid Metal under IHS tests.

Huge fan of the channel. I am working on a project to repurpose an old laptop shell to make my own RaspberryPi laptop. To get more "horsepower" I was considering using two RPi's in a cluster configuration. I have only seen people benchmark clusters by factoring prime numbers. I would like to see benchmark tests in real world desktop applications like you do when comparing SBC's. I would love it if you could make a video using a dual RPi cluster computer and run your benchmark tests to see if the gains are worth the trouble. What do you say? Thanks for the great channel!

Was hoping the + would be a credible omv box. Maybe the Pi4. Usb3, more ram, real gig lan, durable memory, all point to a complete redesign. Real open source would be nice to. Wonder how much they can cram in for 35 clams :) There's a lot of other boards but the community and support makes me kind of whish success for the pi.

WUT. THAT IS A MIG IMPROVEMENT. Can't wait for model B++ or A++ or C++ or the raspberry pi 4 model B+

Another fantastic video

4:52 hopes of entering Narnia dashed 😔 If on offer I wouldn't have to think twice

awesome video! you're the best

11:51 "it never throttled" Once the CPU reached 70 degrees, it did reduce the clock speed from 1.4 GHz (self-overclock) to 1.2 GHz (stock). Add vcgencmd measure_clock_arm to the bash script to see this adjustment in action.

Hi Mister Barnatt, Nice concise review. Like you, I would have preferred a Pi4, a true gigabit ethernet a USB 3 or better and to be rid of that overly frail power connector. As for the later, it is a power connector, why not just use an industry standard barrel connector? I can understand that the former would require a lot of other changes behind the scenes but I think that the results would be well worth it. Besides what Pi enthusiast wants to wait until another year?

Nice upgrade!

I imagine the next step is to modify your Rπ3 by overclocking it and adding a large chunk of aluminum to see if it can outperform the 3+. BTW I've been looking into the software options for programming micro controllers via ARM Linux. I know the Arduino IDE is ported over, but I've been casually looking for more advanced options. I've been learning STM8Flash on Ubuntu. I don't know if that or other options port over onto ARM Linux distros. I would like to see someone do an overview of different programming toolchains specifically for Linux and ARM Linux. The Arduino IDE is nice, but I think the future of any hobbyist IDE is centered around access to a basic debugging interface. I think we are already past the point where 32bit ARM M0's are officially displacing 8bit MCU's. Ideally I'd like to see someone explain how to get started with cheap and simple 32bit programming on an SBC platform. I've been looking into the STM discovery boards but soon realized the ST toolchain requires Windows. I'm totally over using Microsoft, or any company's product when said company tries to force me to use their products instead of building something that motivates me to want to use their products. Hopefully companies like ST, Microchip, NXP, TI and others will start designing toolchains for ARM Linux. The question I've been trying to figure out is what are all of my options for programming microcontrollers on ARM Linux and is it worth building a Rπ into a comprehensive breadboard station capable of experimentation AND programming/debugging multiple MCU's all in one? -Jake

Chris I would like to see this installed in an ELEMENT14 Pi-Desktop case and can we run it as a basic desktop? It would be great to get one of those cases to try. Apparently, any SoC with the same layout as the Pi should fit.

The pi 3 B+ looks great but does anyone know how or if it's possible to add on a 2nd network adaptor? I am looking to run something like pfsense on the SOC so with that I would like to plug one of the network ports into my home network and the 2nd network port would connect to my laptop. The pi would connect via VPN to my office and secure my laptop connection to the office, and the SOC would be basically a 2-port router. I have found something called a Banana Pi W2, it has 2 NICs, 2GB RAM and USB 3, but I havent found any cases for it and the price is double that of the Pi 3. I wanted to keep the price for this under $100 because at $100 or over, I could just buy a mains powered router to do the same. But my thinking is that this is cooler, will last longer and not be so clunky. I am expecting to power it off the laptop usb port. Has anyone done anything like this?

can you please tell me if it is even safe to put a heat-sink on top of the metal piece that's over the SoC? Because there is a little hole in the metal piece maybe for allowing pressure release or something. I am not sure but I am skeptical about putting something on top and sealing that hole.

Hi, could you do a video on how to make a desktop button to change hdmi monitor resolution. So I can quickly choose between 2 monitors without having to remember which one from the dropdown menu. Option 2, can we make the dropdown menu sorted in the order of the last monitor used?

Nice video. Thank you!

Hello sir!! wondering if you would advocate a heatsink on the new pi 3 b+, or maybe just a fan cooled pi 3b + ... leaning toward the latter at this time... the hole in the heat spreader makes my red flags go up when I think of using a heat sink!! thoughts??

It's a reasonable improvement on the original but still with shortcomings that you can live with but are glaring in comparison to other SBC's. Roll on the Pi 4 and some Pi cooling projects and tests would be welcome in the future to see if the window sill, the traditional pi(e) cooling method, is beaten by a custom water loop.

Nice video, I concur with the feeling that a RPI4 is needed. This is kinda marking time. Overall nice improvements but need for true 1Gb net, and Sata 3.

Hello Christopher. Thanks for the review, I do have a question about adding a heat sink & fan for this unit. Should I add this so that the B+ with a heat sink & fan could help regulation of the device's temperature at optimal levels. If possible could you do some testing to see if theirs any advantages . Thanks

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What would be a good setup to stream video while using a monitor keyboard and mouse?

How exciting it would be to get a review of the Lattepada Alfa and the other models in that range by Lattepanda? I understand that the Lattepanda is nowhere near the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, but I'd like to see how they perform, you know? I love your videos, been subscribed for about a year now and found out about the Lattepanda through your top 5 single board computer review. I'd get a raspberry Pi but I fell into more curiousity for the Lattepanda due to the fact that a friend of mine was saying that he liked the Lattepanda cause it had more power. lol, I'd like to see a review on the new lattepanda Alpha and other models on that scale because no one else has a review video on it, so you'd be like the first. lol, thanks and enjoy your day.

Thanks you are very helpful. It will be nice to share also any scripts you have in the link area.

+ExplainingComputers / Christopher, Good demonstration of this SBC. Again, I would ask if (in the future) you could supply the modal of the WiFi and bluetooth chipset. It is nice to see that this board does include a PoE function and is the first board (within this price range) that I have seen that can have WoL functionality (which is a very nice improvement). Whilst the thermal performance is an improvement when compared to the older modal, judging from your figures, I would suggest that a heatsink is still necessary (which has got me thinking, maybe it would be a good idea if you produced a video which attempted to explain the differences between copper, aluminium and ceramic heatsinks). Just out of interest, do you know which kernel version is included within a default installation of Rasbian (I am presuming that it includes either Linux kernel version 4.14 or 4.4).

I will buy it today as I have ordered it I will get it hope Pi 4 is more faster with more good and better specification

Hi did you buy some heatsinks for the 3 b+? Which ones? Thanks

In my Raspberry Pi 3, UKposts videos are not smooth when viewed full screen. How about the B+?

Love all your videos! Got one, installed and up and running. 1. How do I turn it on after a shutdown? 2. How to adjust the resolution?