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Dagger2 · 2019-10-15 03:13:28+00:00

Or at least because people incorrectly think it did.

v6's L3 model is pretty much the same as v4's.

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hanley | karma 226 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2017-02-03 17:29:23+00:00

There is an overlap. Both V4 and V6 are currently LTS until April.

gowld | karma 8809 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2022-05-04 16:12:08

That's not L4 vs L6, that's start in 2015 vs 2108 or whatever.

infecto | karma 3099 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2023-11-07 18:11:22

You might want to double check. The latest turbo models for 4 and 3.5 don’t differentiate. There is only one model and it has 128k context.

EricBurnett | karma 1154 | avg karma 4.91 · | 2012-06-18 13:10:20+00:00

Thanks, I wasn't aware they changed regularly. From what I can find, 4 v4 IPs have changed since 1997, plus the addition of a number of v6 IPs over the years. I'd be curious to know the last time all IPs were different, if ever.

toastal | karma 3492 | avg karma 2.02 · | 2022-10-12 04:21:01

I don't disagree. Luckily I just checked and it seemed the model was added to LVFS this month so I don't have to think about it so much.

akmarinov | karma 2949 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2019-10-05 23:07:20+00:00

That 3 series depreciated that much, because they came out with the new model this year.

renox | karma 945 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2022-05-11 12:11:15

No, he also wrote that the V2 was easier to maintain..

toyg | karma 35240 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2016-10-31 09:56:07+00:00

Production of the low-end model was fine though, uh? How convenient! This is exactly the same that happened with the 2012 redesign. I'm sure it's all a coincidence though. Uh-uh.

(btw: "I'm certain that's probably" says it all, really.)

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cwhiz | karma 3306 | avg karma 3.98 · | 2021-03-02 17:20:43+00:00

It's not even true today. The V90 does not have a hybrid version.

neon_electro | karma 665 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2018-02-07 20:24:59+00:00

I have a v3, and I really like it. Do you have any objections to the later versions?

kenrikm | karma 1584 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2014-07-16 01:56:59+00:00

No, it's Model "III" not Model "3" #wink.

daemonhunter | karma 93 | avg karma 2.27 · | 2021-12-11 14:23:42

There are big discrepancies in the US alone. I'm comparing mine (L6+) to those.

danachow | karma 796 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2021-09-02 16:16:35

I’m pretty sure they did on a number of models, but it wasn’t for the better

pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2018-11-04 11:50:54+00:00

There was a version for the 128K +3A though.

croes | karma 17146 | avg karma 3.11 · | 2023-08-08 10:53:01

How do you know they didn't change the model?

BoiledCabbage | karma 5919 | avg karma 4.34 · | 2020-07-27 17:27:50+00:00

Maybe it beat out its ancestors that had 4 variants instead.

wool_gather | karma 2993 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2016-12-22 19:32:32

The stable ABI was originally supposed to come with v3, though. They pushed it back earlier this year. Now it's "probably v4".

realusername | karma 7849 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2023-06-22 08:44:28

I admit that I did not remember the difference between the 3G and the 3GS when I wrote the comment.

That's the same for every company I think, you always miss stuff when designing the V1

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EvanAnderson | karma 12548 | avg karma 4.53 · | 2016-11-01 16:15:09+00:00

Thanks for mentioning that. You sent me down a brief rabbit-hole of nostalgia looking for the EV4/EV5 differences. If anybody else wants to go down that rabbit-hole here's where I ended-up: http://alasir.com/articles/alpha_history/alpha_21164_21164pc...