There's a thousand old laptops with 16GB RAM on eBay for really need an embedded SOC with GPIO pins to have 16GB RAM?
Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're relatively common in industrial applications now because they have really good software support and great long-term availability.
This effect plays around again and again. Someone makes something for the public good, and corporations show up and take advantage of it. Basically the story of FOSS too, when you think about it.
They launched the compute module which was intended for industrial use a mere two years after the first Pi.
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#193So 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.
Future humans realized AI was the only way to beat the aliens and sent a message to the past with instructions to invent crypto so that the infrastructure would be ready for the majority of timelines.
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#194we've lost the plot. this is no longer a hobbyist computer.
I really don't know who this is targeted at. As a development board these are extremely expensive and as a mini computer you're far better off with something N100 based or similar. What market is this trying to compete in?
It's targeted at someone who wants a board with some memory on it. Memory prices and supply shortages are insane at the moment
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#195That price I'd just buy an Optiplex or something I have 4 RPi servers in my house on 24/7 but yeah Funny different purpose but I bought a 2017 Pixelbook put Ubuntu on it, great machine it was $80
Just don't get a Dell server:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-memory-upgrade-32-gb-2r...
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#196It'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…
Not a completely invalid or uncommon take, but also not completely correct. People lament that it isn't the $25 like it used to be with the Pi 2/3, but ignore that you can get a Pi Zero 2 W (quad A53 cores like 3B, 512MB RAM) for https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/ I wish a Pi 5 (and RAM in general) was cheaper, but Raspberry Pi can't control that.
Is it at all possible to run 1080p video using Pi Zero 2 W smoothly with no jittering?
What about launching a browser and playing a 1080p video from a streaming site?
I am looking for a computer to connect to my internet-disconnected TV.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a completely invalid or uncommon take, but also not completely correct. People lament that it isn't the $25 like it used to be with the Pi 2/3, but ignore that you can get a Pi Zero 2 W (quad A53 cores like 3B, 512MB RAM) for https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/ I wish a Pi 5 (and RAM in general) was cheaper, but Raspberry Pi can't control that.
Is it at all possible to run 1080p video using Pi Zero 2 W smoothly with no jittering? What about launching a browser and playing a 1080p video from a streaming site? I am looking for a computer to connect to my internet-disconnected TV.
An old thin client machine, like a Thinkcentre M73, would do the job, and would cost less than an RPi. Look at EBay.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original vision IIRC was to provide a cheap computer for students in low-income families. You could plug into your TV at home and start learning. Then the hobby community got wind of it and proceeded to buy out all the stock on every release (myself included, I still have one of every first 3 versions sitting in my cabinet)
At this stage I think the way to realize this "cheap computer" vision is in unlocking smartphones. Either with an OS that behaves like a real computer that you can put on an old/cheap commodity phone, or with an app that creates a programmable environment layered over and isolated from the suffocating mobile OS.
There is an unbelievable amount of e waste created because OEMs locked the software down and stopped updating it. I have an android tablet which is functionally working but effectively useless.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're relatively common in industrial applications now because they have really good software support and great long-term availability.
This effect plays around again and again. Someone makes something for the public good, and corporations show up and take advantage of it. Basically the story of FOSS too, when you think about it.
The corporations are paying for the product. The pi foundation could invest that in to making more and developing the product further.