Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

adafruit.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 354 posts

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#121

Post by peterburkimsher »

zerobees wrote: post #119
steveBK123 wrote: post #103

It's crazy how Raspberry Pi & Apple prices have moved in converging direction. Pi 5 8GB is $200 MacBook Neo 8GB is $600 (probably some edu discount available) Sure 3x the price, but it comes with - 256GB SSD, battery, display, keyboard, trackpad.. So the Pi has slowly become too expensive for weird one-off projects and also price competitive with a cheap Mac by the time you add all the stuff you need to use it as a c…

Having had a subscription to Hack-a-Day for a long time, I firmly believe that the vast majority of "weird one-off" Raspberry Pi projects don't actually need anything as capable as a Raspberry Pi SBC. It's just a matter of brand recognition and familiarity. If it gets too expensive, I suspect that more users will migrate to microcontrollers than to gutted notebooks. You don't even need to learn anything new, I'm sure…

Another Hackaday reader here. I think that the RPi shines in projects where GPIO are needed, yet the developer needs a full Linux OS (usually to run Python).

I agree that vibe coding microcontrollers will increase the use of embedded systems instead of RPi devices. Seems like a good move for them to have built the RPi Pico.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#123

Post by Levitating »

xp84 wrote: post #72
Levitating wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But ram prices don't scale linearly. The 4Gb variant of RPi5 is $130. Radxa does have a 16Gb board[1] on pre-order, coming in at $329. Though the Dragon Q8B appears to be quite a bit more capable. [1]: https://arace.tech/products/radxa-dragon-q8b

I don't think I have any beef with what you're pointing out - I was only saying that I don't think the Radxa products' pricing are demonstrating anything too shocking about the Rpi products' pricing. I personally would probably choose one of those over a Rpi (but would probably still rather buy more off-lease Elitedesk G6 Minis, which is what I use for 'lil computer' projects)

> I was only saying that I don't think the Radxa products' pricing are demonstrating anything too shocking about the Rpi products' pricing.

I agree it's not too shocking, I think prices have increased everywhere including competitors.

> off-lease Elitedesk G6 Minis

Those are great if you can surface them!

I've also been enjoying the N100 mini-ITX boards from ASROCK[1] and ASUS. Great choice if you already have a power supply and some RAM stockpiled. The ASUS one uses SODIMM. They use very little power.

[1]: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100DC-ITX/index.asp

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#124

Post by XCSme »

dd8601fn wrote: post #93
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #33

So strange. I can probably sell my 4GB Pi 5 for about 40% more than I bought it for... 3 years ago. This isn't how computers are supposed to work, let alone Pis. I get what's happening, but it's strange to see it happening. Actually, could I sell it for ~10% less than someone would buy it new? Is there a market for used Pis? Maybe 30%, I don't know. That I can sell it for what I got it for at all is wild.

I'm still surprised that cryptocurrency fucking the GPU market was just a warm-up for the real supply chain shortages.

Good point, everyone was expecting GPU prices to go down and all crypto bros to drop their mining rigs, but they can just repurpose them now...

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#125

Post by roody15 »

steveBK123 wrote: post #103

It's crazy how Raspberry Pi & Apple prices have moved in converging direction. Pi 5 8GB is $200 MacBook Neo 8GB is $600 (probably some edu discount available) Sure 3x the price, but it comes with - 256GB SSD, battery, display, keyboard, trackpad.. So the Pi has slowly become too expensive for weird one-off projects and also price competitive with a cheap Mac by the time you add all the stuff you need to use it as a c…

Education price for schools is 499$ for the Neo. Have to agree no longer sure the pi makes much sense at this price point.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#127

Post by barnas2 »

zerobees wrote: post #119
steveBK123 wrote: post #103

It's crazy how Raspberry Pi & Apple prices have moved in converging direction. Pi 5 8GB is $200 MacBook Neo 8GB is $600 (probably some edu discount available) Sure 3x the price, but it comes with - 256GB SSD, battery, display, keyboard, trackpad.. So the Pi has slowly become too expensive for weird one-off projects and also price competitive with a cheap Mac by the time you add all the stuff you need to use it as a c…

Having had a subscription to Hack-a-Day for a long time, I firmly believe that the vast majority of "weird one-off" Raspberry Pi projects don't actually need anything as capable as a Raspberry Pi SBC. It's just a matter of brand recognition and familiarity. If it gets too expensive, I suspect that more users will migrate to microcontrollers than to gutted notebooks. You don't even need to learn anything new, I'm sure…

I built a portable meshtastic terminal using Claude and a Pico 2. It's written 100% of the code in MicroPython and it works great. It even wrote the driver for the E-ink screen I'm using. I built a jig to hold a webcam and the e-ink screen, then had Claude write a script/MCP that takes a photo and crops just the screen out. Then I asked it to figure out a driver, and after a 20 minute loop of taking photos and updating it's driver, it was done.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#128

Post by hn_throw2025 »

ianburrell wrote: post #83
Aurornis wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This (the 16GB version) should not fit into most use cases. You’re buying an expensive RAM chip with a Pi attached. The cheaper 4GB or even 1GB versions ($50 for the latter) are what most people should be looking at for their projects.

I have decided that the Pi4 1GB is the ideal for hobbyists. Faster than Pi3, takes normal USB-C charging, and can do most single server or electronics jobs. Which is why it is currently sold out.

I agree... I use a Pi4B 8GB as a home server with a number of duties.

Less power consumption than the Pi 5 (and no heatsink), and it was the first to offer the combination of USB booting, more than 1GB RAM, and Gigabit Ethernet. And reasonably priced in 2019.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

#130

Post by giantrobot »

greenavocado wrote: post #6

LMAO what a joke. N100 mini PCs are a hundred dollars less and vastly more capable aside from GPIO.

Including but not limited to dual gigabit Ethernet (on a PCIe bus), NVMe slots, and a capable power supply is included in the box.

I lucked out having bought a few N95 mini PCs a few years ago. They were even cheaper then with 16GB of RAM out of the box. To me they're vastly superior to the various RPis I replaced.

I sold off my Pi 4s and never bothered with the 5s. I kept my mix of older Pis for projects that need GPIO and of those my Pi Zeros are the ones that really get used.

Post reply on HN