Comment on It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 months agoThey’re inflated right now, depending on where you buy them. I got one for MSRP (around 30 bucks) last year at my local electronics store, but I had to give them my info to deter scalping.
An official raspberry pi isn’t worth gettin imo. Especially after their artificial availability issues during the pandemic.
Plenty of alternatives out there, which is what I’d recommend. OrangePi is much more reasonable price wise.
And if you don’t need arm, a used thin client will do the same job, cost a lot less, and have more compatibility.
It’s got to the point were for the price of a Pi 5 plus necessary kit, youcan just get a Mini PC with an Intel N100 (maybe the only decent thing Intel has done in the last couple of years) which has a lot more power and expandability though it consumes 15W instead of 7W and would probably be a better choice for running emulators.
I’m hoping risc-v can join soon at reasonable speeds.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Right now” for Pi inflation has been since like 2016. This is just their price now.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well that sucks. I’ve heard the competitors are pretty good now though.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, there’s a lot of competition in SBC these days. People seem to like the OrangePi lineup and some others.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Or for anything where a miniPC would do the same job, there’s tons of miniPCs running 7th gen and older processors available for peanuts since Microsoft arbitrarily declared them to be incompatible with Windows 11, and Windows 10 goes EOL in just 13 months.
HP prodesks for example are down to $100ish on eBay