Rasspberry pi 3 to use "simple" actions?

Question

Electronics

I'm going to buy Rasspberry pi 3, to the question "why him?" I will answer this way: it is acceptable for the money, and various additions can be put in the future. Having read everything, I literally had an overload.
Question : can this board be used just for watching movies online, browsing the Internet, social networks, downloading torrents, etc., what do we usually do on computers at home?
And yes, many will say that there are laptops, smartphones and tablets for this, and here I agree with you, but my smartphone is cut down, the tablet is buggy and the applications all crash out, and there is only one laptop for all relatives. Yes, and I wanted variety in the form of a new device.

Answer 1

I already answered this question. I just don't see it in the replies. I repeat on this.
The main plug of the raspberry is an SD card. She is slow. Don't do anything about it.
Therefore, the distribution of features is as follows:
Browsing - heavy sites that need a lot of RAM and tons of pictures that are written to the browser cache - is not comfortable. But you can.

watching movies online

- Comfortable and performance should be enough.

to download torrents

Where will you download??? On a network drive - Yes. But for rocking and, say, surfing / watching a movie, there is no longer enough performance.
Therefore, as an inexpensive device for the home, it is better to take a cubieboard or bnana pi. These boards have SATA, to which we connect the Disk. And more memory. Processor performance is also higher. But also the price.
According to comments - do not be afraid of Linux. I migrated to it a long time ago and am satisfied. It's the same for you, just looks different.

Answer 2

"смартфон у меня вырубается, планшет глючит и приложения все вылетают"
такая же судьба может постигнуть и Rasspberry, за эти деньги можно купить б/у компьютер, на который можно будет накатить windows и он будет в разы быстрее

Answer 3

Можно, если готовы мириться с постоянными тормозами.
Если не готовы, то нельзя.

Answer 4

Вот мне даже в голову не приходит как эту фигню можно использовать иначе

Answer 5

Это в первую очередь не мультимедийный девайс, а заточеная под разработку плата.
Нужен маломощный мини-компьютер - купите мини-компьютер, типа "Mini PC 200"

Answer 6

простите за рекламу, но советую odroid-c2 тогда взять, будет производительней чем расп