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Personally, I’m loving my Pi 5. It is just in the sweet spot, enough performance for what I need it to do, it’s portable, very low energy usage, it runs off an SD card so it’s very easy to re-image or swap images. The NUC device is a desktop computer. If you want a desktop then buy a desktop, that’s not what a Pi is for (despite some unwise marketing to the contrary). If the v5 is too expensive then pick up a v4, the…
If you need a computer it’s better to use a mini pc form factor from a major vendor that benefits from economies of scale. NUC’s aren’t great value. You can get used HP and Dell stuff used from IT recyclers for ~$150 that do circles around the Pi in terms of performance. I never understood the fascination with the Pi. Especially with all the options today.
> I never understood the fascination with the Pi. Ecosystem. Everybody was gaga over the RPi so if you wanted to do "Task X" you could find an online tutorial for it. Of course, almost everything that doesn't involve an RPi Hat also works just fine on standard Linux machines. But not everybody gets that. I watched this play out in real time. People wanted Octoprint to drive several 3D printers. They wanted one per pr…
Our challenge was scalability and portability. Printers in our farms often moved between labs and offices, and toting a whole PC with each one would have been limiting to where they could be set up, as well as create potential conflicts with IT policy. It was also simpler to image SD cards than hard drives (or to work with IT to create and manage deployable configurations).
In the end, $35/printer for raspi3b+s wasn't a big overall expense, unlike the time spent on training and maintenance. Now we pay 10x more for faster, higher quality printers that don't break down AND include network ports, but we only need 1/5th as many to operate at the same capacity.
Personally, I’m loving my Pi 5. It is just in the sweet spot, enough performance for what I need it to do, it’s portable, very low energy usage, it runs off an SD card so it’s very easy to re-image or swap images. The NUC device is a desktop computer. If you want a desktop then buy a desktop, that’s not what a Pi is for (despite some unwise marketing to the contrary). If the v5 is too expensive then pick up a v4, the…
If a Pi is portable so is a NUC, and they're probably both desktops.
Perhaps most people don’t need to transport their Pi like me. Even so, the footprint definitely matters. The size and weight of the Pi means that it can be installed in many odd places. I have mine on a bookshelf.
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If a Pi is portable so is a NUC, and they're probably both desktops.
The NUC is portable in a sense, but the Pi is at the apex of portability. It weighs basically nothing and takes up very little space. Perhaps most people don’t need to transport their Pi like me. Even so, the footprint definitely matters. The size and weight of the Pi means that it can be installed in many odd places. I have mine on a bookshelf.
Yeah, because everyone has a 5V power supply sitting unused in a drawer. /s
Pi has its own niche where it's great... and "Desktop" is not it. The moment you feel you don't care about power consumption, but you do need NVMe SSD and 8GB of RAM, it's time to look for something else.. NUCs are a great example and if you buy them used on eBay they can be even cheaper.
Pi has its own niche where it's great... and "Desktop" is not it. The moment you feel you don't care about power consumption, but you do need NVMe SSD and 8GB of RAM, it's time to look for something else.. NUCs are a great example and if you buy them used on eBay they can be even cheaper.
Unfortunately intel has discontinued the NUC product line