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Is supply chain still an issue or is it finally possible to buy a pi without making it like buying tickets to Taylor Swift?
But it's still all produced in the UK and shipping + customs fees easily rack up another 30% so it's at least as expensive as tickets for Taylor Swift.
Is supply chain still an issue or is it finally possible to buy a pi without making it like buying tickets to Taylor Swift?
Is supply chain still an issue or is it finally possible to buy a pi without making it like buying tickets to Taylor Swift?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, a bunch of GPIO if you want to control some hardware, not just run a Linux desktop or a media server.
We are starting to see SBCs that bake in an RP2040 to drive some GPIO pins (without needing to tie up a physical usb port), which seems like a reasonable compromise... I do like the RPi Zero size/perf/price combo, but for anything that needs more horsepower it's hard to argue with the bigger NUC-a-likes.
As soon as I need to use a web browser, performance goes out the window, and you're nearly stranded in terms of usability.
I think that easily qualifies as "desktop usage," and it leaves this desire for a low resource consumption web browser.
> At this price point, it’s easy enough to throw one in your basket when you’re already spending a decent chunk of change and be done with it, safe in the knowledge that you have a well-performing boot device. I do still think it’s a bit naff that the M.2 HAT+ doesn’t fit in the official case but I won’t re-open that can of worms. An rpi5 plus M.2 hat plus a branded ssd and you are well into the realm of Intel N100 S…
While there is some commercial/industrial use of RPi, that seems like an odd consideration when generally considering how they've positioned the brand. Meanwhile you can write and run very similar code across everything from the zero all the way up to the 5—which is enormous flexibility that x86 simply doesn't offer. Plus, my understanding is that the N100 still tends to have poor driver support issues that the Pi li…
This doesn't make sense, can you elaborate?
But what about the heat sinks / fan when you mount the m2 on top? Especially /w Pi 5, to get more perf out of it, it presumably should have a sizeable heat sink complete with the fan?
> At this price point, it’s easy enough to throw one in your basket when you’re already spending a decent chunk of change and be done with it, safe in the knowledge that you have a well-performing boot device. I do still think it’s a bit naff that the M.2 HAT+ doesn’t fit in the official case but I won’t re-open that can of worms. An rpi5 plus M.2 hat plus a branded ssd and you are well into the realm of Intel N100 S…
I suspect you are describing a large part of consumer behavior. Someone gets a sporty-car, then starts working on the engine, the suspension, the exhaust, gets new rims and tire, new seats... and in the end they could have bought a porsche Thing is, it all depends on your use case. For the pi, it is lots better for hardware projects than a nuc style machine, via the gpios/csi/dsi. and specialized hats. There is also…
The niche of the Pi5 just has gotten so much smaller, imo.
> At this price point, it’s easy enough to throw one in your basket when you’re already spending a decent chunk of change and be done with it, safe in the knowledge that you have a well-performing boot device. I do still think it’s a bit naff that the M.2 HAT+ doesn’t fit in the official case but I won’t re-open that can of worms. An rpi5 plus M.2 hat plus a branded ssd and you are well into the realm of Intel N100 S…
The pi makes sense for something where you need power (eg more than esp32 or 2040) and gpio. Not as a small server. Those days are gone.