After reading your comment on price I checked Microcenter, an authorized pi dealer, and you’re right. The pi 5 with 16gb is listed at $200.
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pelya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Y’all need a price chart. You are literally getting what you are paying for.
Raspberry Pi 5, 16 GB RAM
- Price: $205 (don’t trust the price on RPi website, no way you are buying it for $145).
- Generic desktop PC: runs Blender and video editors.
- AI agent: yes.
- Computer vision: yes, with face recognition and real-time AI filters.
- SDR signal processor: you can broadcast an HD TV station on it.
- Servers: whatever you want, can host Amazon and Netflix.
Raspberry PI 5, 1 GB RAM
- Price: $45.
- Generic desktop PC: you can edit office documents.
- AI agent: lol no.
- Computer vision: a movement sensor for your surveillance camera.
- SDR signal processor: you can broadcast FM radio.
- Servers: home file server and torrents.
Raspberry PI Zero 2, 512 MB RAM
- Price: $15 on a website, $19 in shops.
- Generic desktop PC: probably runs Solitaire.
- AI agent: dream on.
- Computer vision: a movement sensor for your surveillance camera, and it won’t support HD cameras.
- SDR signal processor: you can record FM radio, not much else.
- Servers: online garage door opener.
- Ethernet adapter sold separately, if you don’t want your garage door opener to drop offline at random because of unstable WiFi.
Raspberry Pi Pico, 264 KB RAM
- Price: $4.
- Generic desktop PC: nope.
- AI agent: absolutely impossible.
- Computer vision: nope.
- SDR signal processor: nope.
- Servers: unsecure garage door opener.
- Ethernet adapter requires soldering skills.
- You don’t need 40 programmable pins to control one garage door.
- Just buy ESP32 instead.
ESP32-C6-Zero, 400 KB RAM.
- Price: $3.50.
- Does everything that Raspberry Pi Pico does, but better.
- Works for a year from three AAA batteries.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Only sane posts on the page.
Here are the facts. I believe the pi 4 is what people are whining doesn’t exist.
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Now I want to see a self-hosted LLM running solely on a Raspberry Pi Pico!!
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Not an LLM or a Pi Pico but I think this project is pretty cool regardless
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
in the esp32 compatible space, are there other good options?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
That’s not really bad pricing it’s actually cheaper than I paid for my 4 according to the chart and that was a bunch of years ago
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
A few years ago I installed Linux on a $40 used Chromebook with 4gb RAM. It runs Blender, Freecad, Minecraft, Celeste, Portal, Kdenlive, etc perfectly acceptably. It has CPU performance a tiny bit worse than the Pi 5, but is x86 and comes with a mouse, keyboard, battery, etc.
I don’t think comparing performance over used PCs is ever going to be favorable for a pi, I think the reasons to get one are reliability, gpio, and the small form factor.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I linuxed a $50 Chromebook & I use it to do sketchy shit that I don’t want to try on my main rig. “Hey, I found a flashdrive at the park! Let’s plug it into the ChromeBurner”!