Before the RAM and storage pricing nightmare, the performance vs price for a Pi 400/500 would be an acceptable trade off for some people. These days, it’s cheaper to buy a laptop with a busted screen on eBay and remove the top half. You get the performance of the HP keyboard at the Raspberry Pi price point.
A raspberry pi is not a serious replacement for PCs in the enterprise. There’s nothing the pi does that HP and Dell couldn’t do if they wanted. The Pi just seems cheap because it can cut corners that don’t matter to hobbyists but that enterprises would never accept.
Ok, I had that coming, but that’s the’s the in complexity. What is the scrappy super cheap but capable competitor of the pi, like the pi was to average desktop PCs?
Ok, tldr: what can do the same as a pi for 30 bucks like 10 years ago the pi was?
What is the scrappy super cheap but capable competitor of the pi, like the pi was to average desktop PCs?
I’d say Rock Pi or Orange Pi, if you want something close to capable.
what can do the same as a pi for 30 bucks like 10 years ago the pi was?
Probably the Arduino Uno Q. It’s Qualcomm’s new Arduino board that runs Linux. It also seems to start at around $44 for the 2GB model (I’m guessing they’re making a loss since they’re new to the SBC game, and they’re probably trying to gain market share).
Or if you don’t need a whole general purpose operating system, then there’s plenty of microcontrollers that’ll work fine (ESP32, STM32, etc.).
1500$ lmao
Just get a Raspberry Pi 500 instead :D
A raspberry pi is much less powerful.
Before the RAM and storage pricing nightmare, the performance vs price for a Pi 400/500 would be an acceptable trade off for some people. These days, it’s cheaper to buy a laptop with a busted screen on eBay and remove the top half. You get the performance of the HP keyboard at the Raspberry Pi price point.
Thanks, AI overlords, I guess.
A raspberry pi is not a serious replacement for PCs in the enterprise. There’s nothing the pi does that HP and Dell couldn’t do if they wanted. The Pi just seems cheap because it can cut corners that don’t matter to hobbyists but that enterprises would never accept.
Which is why I said “some people”.
I would, but they’re now impossible to find and over $400.
What is raspberry pi’s raspberry pi?
Arduino
Ok, I had that coming, but that’s the’s the in complexity. What is the scrappy super cheap but capable competitor of the pi, like the pi was to average desktop PCs?
Ok, tldr: what can do the same as a pi for 30 bucks like 10 years ago the pi was?
I’d say Rock Pi or Orange Pi, if you want something close to capable.
Probably the Arduino Uno Q. It’s Qualcomm’s new Arduino board that runs Linux. It also seems to start at around $44 for the 2GB model (I’m guessing they’re making a loss since they’re new to the SBC game, and they’re probably trying to gain market share).
Or if you don’t need a whole general purpose operating system, then there’s plenty of microcontrollers that’ll work fine (ESP32, STM32, etc.).
Realistically, the ESP32. Their range has gotten decently powerful enough that many of them replace what once took a Raspberry Pi to accomplish.
Raspberry Pi Zero, maybe.
Get an orange pi 800?
Doesn’t even seem those are for sale anymore based on both their Amazon and AliExpress stores.
Damn, I still see some available on aliexpress but it looks like they aren’t stocking any more.
Probably taken out by the ram shortage like everything fun.
Oof i havent kept up with hardware news so i wasnt aware…
I guess RAM prices just fuck everything huh?
That, and also each Pi keeps getting less and less about being a cheap, low power single-board computer, and more about impressive raw performance numbers: Pi 5 cpu benchmarks 600 times higher than the Pi 1 (which got a single thread score of 62).