Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O
ackzsel@kbin.social 1 year agoWell, personally I could do without and if it reduces costs I'm for it. Raspberry pi was always about being cheap.
Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O
ackzsel@kbin.social 1 year agoWell, personally I could do without and if it reduces costs I'm for it. Raspberry pi was always about being cheap.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, this should be higher up. Pi’s have usually been around the $35-40 mark, and this one is going to be $100. My B, B+ came as a kit with power supply, SD card, and a cheapo case for $45. Now you can’t even get just the 3B+ for less than $50. My Pi’s are doing boring, simple work like running my 3D printer, running PiHole and a VPN, or being a print server. None need $100 computers to do the job. I guess as long as earlier Pi versions are still available, NBD.
$100 is starting to price out of the cheap educational/hobbyist/experimenter range and send people looking elsewhere.