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Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by frollogaston »

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…

Yeah I don't get it. I have one as my always-on server and also the only thing I port-forward, a home base if you will. Love it.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by sugarkjube »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #122

IMO the coolest thing about this is that it all fits in a keyboard. It would be awesome if this came bundled with smart glasses, so I could walk into a coffee shop with just keyboard and glasses, and get work done without having to hunch over my laptop. Of course the present offering is lacking in computing power (and any form of display)

just get a foldable keyboard with your ar glasses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by chihuahua »

bigiain wrote: post #158
zamalek wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that many companies have been appending + to the end of product names for an extremely long time. This is hardly an Apple innovation.

Next you're gonna try and tell me that Apple didn't invent the mobile phone. Or the portable MP3 player. Or the windowing GUI.

Steve Jobs invented the "+" sign at Reed College!

/s

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by wpm »

kllrnohj wrote: post #173
Narishma wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think that's a combination of things: 1) The company "sold out". That is, in times of limited supply they prioritized fulfilling large compute module orders instead of the hobbyist market that initially supported them. To be fair if I was running that company I'd have done the exact same thing, it's obviously the right financial choice. Just, you know, it'll sting for the market that was shunned. 2) They got expens…

All of this plus, in regards to, number 2, x86 got cheap. For $80(well, pre tariffs at least) I can deal with a Pi 5s quirks and slowness, or I can buy a Radxa X4 with an Intel N100, a built in 2230 M.2 slot, 2.5GbE, and a Pi Pico with full GPIO. Software support? I have UEFI; literally anything I care to install will install from an ISO.

Literally the Radxa’s faults all boil down to the same faults the Pi has with the goofy form factor that forces you to cable squid, and the shitty microHDMI ports.

All for the same price.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by amatecha »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #130
cesarb wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even a basic not-too-horrible screen will cost another $80 I believe the idea is that you'd plug it into the TV you already have, like we did in the 1980s.

Or you just buy a below $200 laptop.

Yeah I was thinking, for the price of this Pi 500+ I can get a pretty badass secondhand ThinkPad and it will probably be more powerful, too. /shrug

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by keyle »

I think the future of computing is Arm, or at least not Intel. Once you've experienced completely silent computers, there is no going back.

I used to be that kid with a spectrum from Sinclair back in the 80s. Seeing a product like this without subscription, without forced updates, without windows or iOS, gives me hope for the future of computing.

This is maybe what looks like a hacky little thing to some, to me, it looks like the future of linux desktop.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by sprinkly-dust »

wishfish wrote: post #142
zamalek wrote: post #129

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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.

This might be (relatively) easily achieved by networking a couple of Raspberry Pi Zero 2's together under the Pi 500+ keyboard shell.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by MomsAVoxell »

chihuahua wrote: post #183
bigiain wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Next you're gonna try and tell me that Apple didn't invent the mobile phone. Or the portable MP3 player. Or the windowing GUI.

Steve Jobs invented the "+" sign at Reed College! /s

Yes but it was much more stylish: ⌘

/s

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by ironhaven »

kllrnohj wrote: post #173
Narishma wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think that's a combination of things: 1) The company "sold out". That is, in times of limited supply they prioritized fulfilling large compute module orders instead of the hobbyist market that initially supported them. To be fair if I was running that company I'd have done the exact same thing, it's obviously the right financial choice. Just, you know, it'll sting for the market that was shunned. 2) They got expens…

One misconception that everyone keeps repeating is that the pi 5 expects and needs a 5v/5a power supply to work. The CPU and all the IO will work as expected with any USB pd charger that can do at least 15 watts. The only issue you will have is a power limit on USB peripherals that use a lot of power like hard drives. Keyboards, mice and webcams will work just fine with the 600 milliamp power limit.

Previous raspberry pis had low usb power limits and people did not consider those products dead on arrival. Now that they are trying to address a limitation in the original product people are discovering that the raspberry pi was always a very limited platform to begin and the next step is not an incremental bump to the specs but to just buy a regular computer.

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