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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

phonon wrote: post #45
intsunny wrote: post #41

I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…

> - AMD's Ryzen 4000 products look amazing, but (almost?) none of the laptops are 13" with high quality screens. Check out the Xiaomi RedmiBook 13 (100% sRGB coverage).

That tops out at 16GB RAM and curios how warranty service looks like in case you have issues.

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by Legogris »

youngtaff wrote: post #48

I'd like a Pi with built in POE and eMMC support Something like the profile of the original Ubiquiti CloudKey would be ideal (don't need most of the ports on the Pi) https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/

Like a Rock Pi 4?

https://rockpi.org/rockpi4

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by sumedh »

imtringued wrote: post #39
dikei wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I'm using the official power supply and have never encounter any power issue.

For some reason people seem to really want to use their $75 Macbook USB chargers instead of just buying the official power supply.

Why use another charger when your existing charger should do the job?

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by GenericsMotors »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #44
gambiting wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know where you are in the EU but UK refurbishers constantly sell post-lease desktops and laptops on ebay for around £50, shipping to any EU country is usually £10-20 on top of that, if anything. Like this kind of stuff: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Lenovo-Intel-i3-Dual-Core-i5-Q... Is plentiful and easy to buy, again - ships anywhere in the EU. As for the power consumption - I have to disagree again, I have…

I'm in Austria and second hand systems with an i7/i5, 8Gb RAM and an SSD go for around/over $200 not $85. For $85 I can only find core2duo/quad 4gb RAM and spinning rust so there's no way that is a viable alternative for a RPi. Maybe UK is an outlier or Austria is, I don't know.

Similar issue in my country (Portugal). On our largest second-hand market (OLX.pt) the laptops in the 60-80 EUR range are pretty much all described as "for parts", and their specs are not comparable to this RPi model.

The snide comments like the GP's are due to them living in the american bubble.

EDIT: also note the comment you're replying to is using a traditional workstation "slab" as an example. I'd rather use a small RPi that frees up more desk space than buy something that will make my work environment at home even more cramped!

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by sneak »

intsunny wrote: post #41

I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…

> Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the hardware.

His claims were significantly overblown. If your T2 dies, yeah, your data is toast, because the disk keys live in the T2. But the same applies for your SSD dying itself, and the T2 is not especially or uniquely unreliable. Even if it dies as frequently as an SSD, the failure rate is still well within the realm of normal/acceptable. He’s blowing it up for clicks.

The keyboard on the other hand was a documented design flaw. The T2 works fine.

It also significantly improves platform speed and security (and they even left a platform security escape hatch if you want to disable the boot security and run Linux, something they didn’t have to do).

His post was inflammatory clickbait, nothing more. This sort of Apple-flaming, choir-preaching basher content has been extremely popular regardless of merit since long before the T2 or even the removal of the headphone jack from the phones.

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by skissane »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #54
cat199 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In my EU country second hand hardware prices are through the roof. Curious - any thoughts on why?

Small country, small market. Small market, low supply. Low supply, high prices.

Wasn't the EU single market supposed to fix that?

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by qzio »

intsunny wrote: post #41

I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…

> - AMD's Ryzen 4000 products look amazing, but (almost?) none of the laptops are 13" with high quality screens.

Lenovo will release a x13 with ryzen 4000 later this year.

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by rewoi »

uHuge wrote: post #60
rewoi wrote: post #17

Cool. I need small machine that can run java and Intellij Idea to go with my phone. Great for section hikes while pretending to do WFH :)

Why not have Linux directly on your Android? There are great options and the VNC works reliably.

I want local machine, so remote VNC is out.

There is no Linux like solution for android phone that runs Xserver and OpenJDK reliably. Samsung DEX emulation was the only usable solution, but that was killed off. Termux can not run OpenJDK, some weird issues with crashing.

Also most devices do not have enough cooling capacity, max performance can be only delivered in short bursts before CPU gets throttled down. If you hack it to run at full speed for hours, it freezes.

PI is simply the only option at this size, with enough CPU power and good Linux support.

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by esmi »

intsunny wrote: post #41

I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…

> web browsing, text editing and terminal.

If that’s all you want try an iPad2. I think it would make a better “laptop” than a RPI. RPI doesn’t have a battery.

Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

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Post by Jonnax »

intsunny wrote: post #41

I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…

Why are you comparing $1000+ laptops to a raspberry pi and a dock?

If the raspberry pi meets your needs, consider a much cheaper laptop

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