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Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by bsoles »

gorgoiler wrote: post #104

Daily driving with a Pi was very very close to possible for me, back in 2020 when I last tried it, but unfortunately a Pi 4 just didn’t have enough oomph to handle bigger web apps like outlook webmail, Google’s productivity suite, or a few other tools I needed for my job. How does the Pi 5 family compare, five years on?

I used a Raspberry Pi 400 for couple years as my home computer and embedded software projects. It worked surprisingly well for my needs: internet browsing, C++ development, web development.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by wishfish »

zamalek wrote: post #129
thw_9a83c wrote: post #114

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It is astonishing! It's especially impressive when you realize that the motherboard itself is so small that most of the keyboard interior is basically empty space [0]. [0]: https://assets.raspberrypi.com/static/25912715ba437c32c56757...

I'll be hanging around until someone mods more PIs into it.

Thinking of the old Slashdot joke but with a twist. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster inside your keyboard.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by bsoles »

lproven wrote: post #92
sys_64738 wrote: post #71

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The power of the Pi comes from the standardized 40 pin GPIO for hooking other devices up to.

I've owned 7, no, 8 of them so far. One is running in my "server room" right now, as my Pi-Hole. I have never ever connected anything to the GPIO.

A lot of hardware startups/projects use Raspberry Pis. You program in a real Linux environment and still have access to I2C, SPI, and serial ports, which lets you talk to all kinds of chips out there.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by ed_mercer »

glimshe wrote: post #24

$200 and still micro HDMI? No, thanks. Who is this product for? I've abandoned RPi after the rise of sub $200-PCs on Amazon, which usually come with power supply, on/off buttons, dual full size HDMIs, SSDs etc etc.

I have seen this comment a few times, why do people hate micro hdmi?

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by Narishma »

florianist wrote: post #54

So many comments are very negative here. I'm currently using a Pi 4 as my home desktop computer and I will probably replace it with a Pi 500+. I really want to avoid a pre-installed Windows, want my computer to be 100% silent, low energy, and I fancy the computer-is-in-keyboard feel. Sure, I might get a mini PC for a bit cheaper but I like to support Raspberry Pi. The products are easy to get into, have great and las…

I've noticed Raspberry Pi posts here always attract tons of negative comments, regardless of what the article is about.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by bloomingeek »

florianist wrote: post #54

So many comments are very negative here. I'm currently using a Pi 4 as my home desktop computer and I will probably replace it with a Pi 500+. I really want to avoid a pre-installed Windows, want my computer to be 100% silent, low energy, and I fancy the computer-is-in-keyboard feel. Sure, I might get a mini PC for a bit cheaper but I like to support Raspberry Pi. The products are easy to get into, have great and las…

Here here! I'm using a Pi 5 and I added the Pi SSD Kit that sits on top of the fan. It made all the difference in the world! I installed Ubuntu and use it for all internet stuff.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by Cheer2171 »

vegancap wrote: post #111

I've been around long enough to find it absolutely astonishing, that you can now fit a computer with 16gb of ram, 265gb of storage and a quad core processor, with no cooling, inside a keyboard.

Those capabilities have been in a much smaller slab you have been able to carry around in your pocket for the last 5 years minimum, and that slab was a fully functional computer with full touchscreen display input, microphone/speaker, and cellular.

The Samsung S20 Ultra (2020) has 16gb RAM 256GB of good fast storage, and with Dex you can connect it to a monitor and keyboard+mouse via a USB C dock and get a desktop window environment.

Of course the RPi costs less, but marvel over that, not the form or compactness. RPi innovated on cost, but this capacity in this form is everywhere. They don't even use most of the space inside the keyboard, the compute module is all the size of a smartphone.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by threatofrain »

pedro_caetano wrote: post #21
threatofrain wrote: post #19

Depending on what you want to experiment with, a Mac Mini might be far more cost-productive for most people wanting to play with software and servers.

A large part of the original Ethos of the Raspberry Pi foundation is to bring back some of the technology fascination and allure that children in 1980's Britain experienced with the BBC Micro and Acorn computers (which ultimately led to today's ARM). We can assume the 500 is meant more as a nostalgia 'one-computer-for-every-child' design more so than a powerful work house for developers.

I was also thinking for children and education, since the all-in-one setup ditches the strengths of the RPi, such as form factor and power draw.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by [deleted] »

pjmlp wrote: post #61
threatofrain wrote: post #59

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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.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by duskwuff »

XorNot wrote: post #105
LiamPowell wrote: post #58

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The first Raspberry Pi was not released in 1960.

Huh I read minicomputer and assumed we were talking about the first home computers, which that was about their epoch. (TBF I don't think any were ever $20 so that's on me). Although if you go from the Pi 1 in 2012 at $35 at launch, it would be about $50 today.

> I read minicomputer and assumed we were talking about the first home computers, which that was about their epoch.

The minicomputers of the 1960s were only "mini" compared to earlier mainframes; they were still far too large and expensive for home users to even consider. Home computers didn't really come about until the late 1970s.

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