Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced

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• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wasn’t the point of these to be dirt cheap and relatively simple? It seems like it would make more sense to just buy a used laptop.

  Maybe someone else should start a new thing that goes back to making ultra cheap really basic single board computers. It seems like there’s a market for it that’s been left vacant.

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  pi performance is pretty low though… I’ve been generally disappointed

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  • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why?

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    • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So when they started adding HDMI and hardware video decoding support I figured it would be perfect for a simple HDTV driver… however, it’s basically impossible to watch a movie without glitches and stoppages.

      I also attempted to use it with a very light linux distro as a simple web browser but it was always sluggish… at the price point, it seems you are better off getting some old laptop/desktop (if size is not a problem)

      I am sure it would work as a headless something but at that level so would my 10 year old abandoned computer I just can’t bring myself to toss out hehehe

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s wild there is a rpi with 8GB RAM (IMO). I wonder what people are doing with it.

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  • undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though.

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rock Pis can have up to 32 GB RAM, and a much more powerful processor (RK3588). You might need active cooling, though.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a professional board right? I mean I can understand high specs to manage some million dollar machine, for an amateur not so much.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s as much as the gaming PC I built to play Skyrim on ultra settings in 2012.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looking forward to the new Pi 6, with its luscious 32mb of ram

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• roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will never own a pi4 sad.

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