* An ongoing debate between Maurice Kinal and Tony Langdon rages on ...   
      
    MK> With my luck I'd much rather not have to rely on it.  From what I've   
    MK> read thus far I think you are smart to stick with 2.   
      
   I had a couple of RPi3's that were loads of fun and reliable, BUT the Raspian    
   OS coupled with the hardware just isn't powerful enough to run any mainstream    
   apps. I had Mystic and Apache running on one quite successfully, so it's good    
   for just a BBS as long as you have plenty of clean power (I ended up getting a    
   50W USB power adapter with 6 jacks for all the peripherals (all ran off 5V    
   USB). Monitor, Cpu, Sound, cooling fan, etc. I also bought a hardware   
   interfave    
   kit for a rainy day, still in the box {chuckle}   
      
   -+-   
   Keep the faith   :^)   
      
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