$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.
What's a reputable brand here?
Raspberry Pi 500+
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Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Acorn Archimedes 400 series, and the 500 series that followed it (in practice only the A540). The original ARM workstations. The single board computer Pi naming scheme is based on the BBC Micro (Model A, Model B). As for the 'plus' - Acorn A7000+ was the last of the Acorn desktop computers to be released. There is a heavy Acorn influence with Raspberry Pi, for good reason.
Don’t forget that ARM was originally the Acorn RISC Machine.
And the co-creator of ARM, Sophie Wilson, still works for Broadcom - the company which bought part of the remnants of Acorn (Element 14). This is where Eben Upton worked before going off to start the Raspberry Pi foundation.
Jack Lang was involved in the Pi, having also been involved in Netchannel, the STB company which used the Acorn technology and had funding from Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Acorn.
David Braben, co-author of Elite (and author of Zarch/Lander for the Acorn Archimedes) was an early Pi supporter.
Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#283$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.
What's a reputable brand here?
Beelink seems to be one of the better brands. I own one and have no issues.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did this when I built a server with integrated graphics only to find that the motherboard somehow didn't support it
Mobo integrated graphics require CPU support. Maybe you bought one of the slightly cheaper Intel "F" chips without realising it lacks the graphics support?
It was just K, not KF
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#285If this is like the RPI4 with a single global model I'm wondering how it passes FCC regs, in that presumably the Wi-Fi is flexible enough to transmit on illegal US channels (i.e. Ch 12-14 on 2.4). Am I missing something?
The usual way to do it is to use the same regdomain as the current access point, with a fallback to a default country code of '00' (which allows only the minimal set of frequencies which are acceptable globally).
But what if you're using mesh or running an AP? Won't the software out of the box allow you to set the regdomain to AU?
Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But I assume that's not the pi 500? I mean, this series has/is a keyboard, and if you are just running it as a server, you save some money by buying a regular version
Yes, a Pi 500.
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#287Earlier 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.
Jobs was "inspired" by a visit at Xerox labs, they showed him a GUI built using Smalltalk (which they'd also invented). So naturally, he ran back to his office and invented GUI ;)
There is no prize for second… unless you do it better.
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 raspberr…
Except as soon as you have some issue first comment will be "are you using official power supply"? I hate such comments with passion. Feels very corporatish support.
Did you check to make sure you were using the official power supply before posting?
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 t…
Did Radxa ever iron out the heat sink issue with the X4? IIRC, when released, the official heat sink needed shimming to make proper contact with the processor.
For mine, following Explaining Computers' advice, I put in a copper shim, and that solved the issue. But I'm not sure if they ever sold through the stock of their first revision heatsink. I think they did, but I haven't bought another since the first two.
Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#290Nit: It's the Pi 500+ (the + was eaten up by HN's automated title sensationalism-removal, I guess) And I've posted benchmark data to my sbc-reviews repo here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/81 Performance-wise it's pretty much the same as the Pi 5 16GB (and can be slightly faster than the regular Pi 500 depending on the task, if it benefits from faster storage or more RAM...) Since this is the firs…
Is my math not mathing today, or is that patch more than 15 lines? :)