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Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by pjmlp »

threatofrain wrote: post #59
pjmlp wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, where can I get a new one at comparable Pi prices?

If you're buying Raspberry Pi's, either the form factor or power requirements really worked for you, such as if you're in robotics, IoT sensors, or hardware-adjacent stuff, or you knew you were spending a little bit extra for the hobby space. That includes all the people setting up home labs for their own learning. An M1 is about $250 refurbished under Amazon's protection program. If you intend to use this as a hybri…

I asked for a new one, and I am not going to pay such prices for 2nd hand stuff, assuming they exist at all, cheapest is 320 € on Amazon Germany.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by binary132 »

pdpi wrote: post #31
TiredOfLife wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> screens are more expensive than keyboards This keyboard https://www.norbauer.co/products/the-seneca?variant=48640876... is more expensive than Pro Display XDR with nanotexture and the 1k stand

Adam Savage posted a video a couple of weeks ago, where he discusses this keyboard with Ryan Norbauer. That thing is overengineered to the point I'd argue it actually becomes some sort of artistic statement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FEv1qw4_w

Overpriced to the point that it becomes an artistic statement: “The buyer fell for it again”

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by binary132 »

hyperbovine wrote: post #30
LiamPowell wrote: post #22

All the marketing for this advertises it as a desktop computer. What's the appeal of this compared to a cheaper and more powerful N150 NUC, or a used mini PC if it's for personal use where you just need one? A N150 has about twice the CPU performance, hardware video decoding that isn't crippled, and much more software built for its architecture among other things.

Right, this thing is priced from an earlier (pre-BeeLink) era. There’s just so much more you can get for $200 nowadays, right off Amazon.

It is fundamentally just a novelty product at this point.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by nebalee »

ceayo wrote: post #35

The 20 dollar minicomputer has now become the 200 dollar rgb keyboard. Still, I’ve tried and using a raspberry pi as a desktop computer but everything is so impractical. Maybe the pi 5 is better, but I do not believe it’ll ever replace normal desktop computers. Raspberry Pi’s started as a small board which you can even run Linux on, with low power consumption, so toucan run it day round for services like home assista…

The 20 dollar minicomputer has not become the 200 dollar rgb keyboard. You can still get a ~20 dollar Raspberry Pi minicomputer that runs Linux and has low power consumption: The Pi Zero 2. They expanded their range of products on the top, both performance and price wise, but boards on the other end of the range are still on offer.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by 72deluxe »

tiniuclx wrote: post #33

This seems like an interesting product for tinkerers and hobbyists, or possibly for educational purposes (e.g. Linux computer for university students to learn on). I find it hard to see how this can replace a more typical small desktop computer though.

What sort of things are most people doing on their desktop computer that needs more power or RAM though? I can't imagine.

You can still buy woefully underpowered laptops with hopeless resolutions and with 4GB of RAM running Windows 11, and that is a horrible desktop experience. At least with this it is a usable desktop machine, where the normal bottleneck was IO speed.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by extraduder_ire »

apexalpha wrote: post #65

This would be so much better to use in schools than Macs, iPads or crappy Windows PCs. I hope many schools see this and will consider it.

For schools in particular, the promise to keep making them until at least January 2035 is a big boon for replacing broken ones. Even if it'll likely be replaced with something better long before then.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by jacquesm »

rs186 wrote: post #27
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #16

What's the point of this? Where does it fit, who is it aimed at apart from Explaining Computers and good old Jeff Geerling (hiya Jeff!). Maybe if it has been designed into a retro style case or something? As it stands it's very hard to see who would want this.

Since the original 500's release I have never seen a single forum post (in generic tech discussions) about the product. In other words, for me who spends lots of timing reading/watching discussions/reviews of gadgets, this never came up once, anecdotally. I don't think you are alone in your confusion.

One has been sitting in my hallway closet running a pretty complex HA setup. It has been so rock solid that I more or less forgot about it.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by esseph »

daft_pink wrote: post #34
chrismorgan wrote: post #10

> The ultimate all-in-one PC I object to this labelling: the term “all-in-one PC” has always been used to mean a computer integrated into a screen , to which you must add a keyboard and mouse (or more likely it will be bundled with a low-quality keyboard and mouse). But this is a computer integrated into a (good) keyboard , to which you must add a screen and mouse—and screens are more expensive than keyboards. Even a…

I also don’t get the language and would prefer to supply my own Keychron with a regular raspberry pi.

Spending more on the keyboard than on the pi! :-)

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by maratc »

An improvement over Pi 500 in many ways, but adding keys to the right of heavily-used (r) Shift / Enter / Backspace would make it much harder to find these keys without looking at the keyboard.

The previous version also had half-height arrows that had some negative space ("not keys") above them, and so it was easier to position the fingers over the arrows just by feel; this one makes it harder.

I'd hope the next generation returns to the previous keyboard layout (which was almost perfect for me.)

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