Oh his point stands, as soon as you add a case and a power adapter/cable you’re near 100$.
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DaGeek247@kbin.social 10 months agoNot really. It's made to run headless, and isn't always used for compute tasks. I use mine for running servos. But accessories for the desktop are also not included, so your point doesnt stand regardless.
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DaGeek247@kbin.social 10 months ago
Oh his point stands,
No it doesn't. The power supply is 8$ and the case is 10$, from the official store. That's 72$. Stop lying.
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DaGeek247@kbin.social 10 months ago
You're funny. That makes the total 77$. Still not the 100$ + required accessories that a desktop needs.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ve got easily 50 power adapters for things like Pi. Doesn’t everyone?
Bondrewd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My brother in christ. A used PC has powersupply, case, storage and cooling. This is about the basic kit you need for a proper pi5 experience. You can very easily hit the 100 dollar mark.
Also, most of the used business PC will have 8G RAM, which would put your little ARM funsies up to the $130 budget range.
And you would still only have 4 shitty cores.
DaGeek247@kbin.social 10 months ago
And it wouldn't have gpio, would require at least a square foot of floor/desk space, and it would cost more to run. Price. Size. Gpio. Nobody is running their remote controlled car with a cabled desktop sat on it.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you’re running a remote controlled car you want something way down the power scale like as ESP32 or even an ATTiny + radio HW.
Mind you, I don’t disagree with your point, juts tought the example wasn’t correct for it.
Bondrewd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure how much more it would cost to run. If you only really talk about stuff a pi can do as well, you wont be maxing out your cores. You will use a bit more maybe. Nothing sort of whatever you only really keep in mind for monero mining.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
USFF boxes are quite a bit smaller footprint than 1 sq/ft, about 7"x7"x1.4"
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you just need GPIO for low level electronics there are 20$ SBCs that get the job done. No need for a full RPi5.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You’re assuming use-case.