Don't Buy a Raspberry Pi3 Model A+

Just Say No

It seemed an appealing purchase. I need a small Raspberry Pi to put inside a telephone (as you do) and this looked like it might offer a bit more power and connectivity than a Pi Zero. It arrived yesterday and I must say I’ve been completely underwhelmed by its performance. I was kind of hoping to be able to use remote development in Visual Studio Code to write and deploy Python code in the Pi. It doesn’t work. It never actually displays an error message. It just maxes out and then stops.

On the other hand the Pi Zero 2 that I got seems to work a lot better. I thought the devices would be broadly equivalent, but it seems that the zero is much better.