Raspberry pi 4 (b)

[mypify]

Hey there!

I am new to this community so this question may sound dumb...
i was looking on sites to buy a raspberry pi 4. some products said raspberry pi 4 B and the other said Raspberry pi 4.
is there a diffirence between them or are they the same?

thanks a lot!

[gordon77]

They are all Pi4B, 3 models 1,2 or 4 GB.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hey there!

I am new to this community so this question may sound dumb...
i was looking on sites to buy a raspberry pi 4. some products said raspberry pi 4 B and the other said Raspberry pi 4.
is there a diffirence between them or are they the same?

thanks a lot!

Always best to actually surf the Official Website for information and buy from official resellers:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/ra ... 4-model-b/

[Botspot]

The B refers to the shape of the Pi. At this time, there is only one shape of Pi 4, but that may change in the future.
For example, the Pi 3+ had three shapes:
The B:

The A:

And the Compute Module:

[hippy]

i was looking on sites to buy a raspberry pi 4. some products said raspberry pi 4 B and the other said Raspberry pi 4.

The "4" is the family name, the "B" the variant within that family. As there is currently only one variant available "Pi 4" can only mean "Pi 4B" at this present time.

[Burngate]

A history lesson.
When conceived, the Pi was thought of as a great-grand-child of the BBC microcomputer, of which there were A and B versions - the B being better if not bigger than the A.

So the Pi came as a B, or chopped down as an A.

Now we just have the B

[W. H. Heydt]

A history lesson.
When conceived, the Pi was thought of as a great-grand-child of the BBC microcomputer, of which there were A and B versions - the B being better if not bigger than the A.

So the Pi came as a B, or chopped down as an A.

Now we just have the B

It has been stated that the original intent was to bring out the Model A first (hence the early slogan about a Linux system for $25). Those posting to the forums convinced the RPF that the features of the Model B were so important that it was released first, with the Model A some months later. Dr. Upton has stated that the Model A was his one failure, having sold "only" 100K of them. The replacement, the A+, did better. There was a stated intent to make a Pi2A, but that never happened. So now we have (in the smaller form factor), the A+ and the Pi3A+. Whether or not there will be a Pi4A, only time will tell. However, the B-series is not the only game in town when it comes to Pis.