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Raspberry Pi becomes a public company (www.theregister.com)
submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't buy it. USBC can deliver quite a lot of power

[–] DacoTaco 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I agree. Pi5 apparently uses 5v@5A max, which is outside the usbc-pd specs. Not sure why they didnt go for usbc-9v in and use onboard components to convert the power to something lower for cpu ( which i assume it already does from 5v )

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Maybe those packages are bulky or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Wait is it locked to the official charger?