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What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today? I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in. You can't find a Pi 4, much less one with equivalent specs for anywhere near this price. If you can find it, an 8GB PI4 is $75 and then you need to buy the case, power suppl…
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That was a figure of speech.
you can't just call everything a figure of speech and use that as license to say what you want. words have meaning.
When you say "everything", do you mean literally everything, or was that a figure of speech?
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I used a RPi in the past as main desktop, why i went for this: - Its not a Intel platform (trust issues due to IME) - Power consumption low enough for running 24/7 - Noise - its quiet enough so it does not disturb me while sleeping - No support for weird power management, machines going dark for no discernible reason has always been bugging me What i really disliked was the instability of SD cards, and the media play…
Its not a Intel platform (trust issues due to IME) See, this is what I don't understand, the pi's GPU is running a huge pile of closed source proprietary code as well, and at a first approximation has full system visibility too (ignoring it apparently has a bug limiting its actual view of all system ram on the higher capacity models). It could in theory be injecting/monitoring the nic as well. AKA, its just as privil…
Intel is known to do this shit, Broadcom isn't, yet.
I'd always prefer a blob on the boot partition over an EEPROM that i can't access without disassembly.
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A quick google search shows raspberry pi 4 8gb ram selling at 140 eur in italy, 100 eur in hungary. If you live in the eu why do you limit your searches to one country? It feels like those people complaining they cant find ps5s or gpus yet i comfortably sourced mine from various countries, new, at a decent price, even during the pandemic. If you own a small ltd you can even buy them vat free.
Galagomarket seems to have the RPi 4B 8GB in stock for 99€. Don't know where they ship, but the website is translated into Croation, English, German, Italian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Slovakian. I bought from them in Feb 2021 and got mine delivered quickly. https://www.galagomarket.com//item/display/1953
What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today? I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in. You can't find a Pi 4, much less one with equivalent specs for anywhere near this price. If you can find it, an 8GB PI4 is $75 and then you need to buy the case, power suppl…
I'd love to know where you got that PC for that price. I just spent 20 minutes doing some searches in all the usual suspects (Amazon, eBay, AliXpress, and some online stores I can usually get good prices from) and the cheapest I found for the configuration you specified was around $400.. Mostly it seems to be the RAM that boosts the cost. For 8GB I can get it down to $260, but I've seen nothing even close to $180. Ed…
What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today? I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in. You can't find a Pi 4, much less one with equivalent specs for anywhere near this price. If you can find it, an 8GB PI4 is $75 and then you need to buy the case, power suppl…
Does it run on low voltage dc?
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GPIO pins. If you want to connect a "regular PC" to the real world, you can get a USB DAQ but even the cheapo LabJack, NI or MCC models are at least a hundred bucks.
The GPIO on the PI is compromised for any hard realtime usage by the fact its running linux (ignoring what can be done with a lot of extra work with a RT kernel and pinning cores). For non realtime use, the $10 USB->GPIO ones work fine on any computer with USB. In fact many of them are just ESP's, and work even better than the pi for hard real-time because you write custom bitbanging ardunio code and send the results…
https://www.adafruit.com/product/815
I got my pi zero w a lonnng time ago when you could actually find them.
For anyone in or around London, for today and tomorrow there is a popup shop on Oxford street selling raspberry pis https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-raspberry-pi-store-pops...
They actually have some in stock?
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There is a floor where browsing the web is _painful_, and the pi is definitely in that category on any site that isn't hackernews levels of javascript. I challenge you to give amazon or ebay a try on it, or just spend a bit of time on youtube. Things you take for granted, like being able to run videos full screen won't happen on the pi if your monitor is HD or better.
The first machine I browsed the web on was running at a wopping 40MHz. We have a bloat problem not a spec problem even on cheap machines. Now get off my lawn you kids.