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> It's a fun hobbyist computer, not a technical shootout. It is obviously a technical shootout. Time and money are a finite commodity and having to spend more
by geezerjay 7y ago
> It's a fun hobbyist computer, not a technical shootout.
It is obviously a technical shootout. Time and money are a finite commodity and having to spend more on a less capable device that takes more work to get up and running is not a good way to invest our resources.
- detaro 7y agoNo, having fun is not about on-paper specs. These are entirely different classes of devices, and one isn't totally better than the other - e.g. the ESP32s are a lot more low-level accessible than a complicated ARM SoC. Want to run Linux: sure, get a <something>PI. Want to build something on bare-metal, maybe pick something more accessible on that level.
- geezerjay 7y ago> No, having fun is not about on-paper specs. Actually, it is. Specs dictate the potential uses of a device, and a more expensive but less capable option simply means users have to pay more to be able to achieve less. In this case one option appears to be outclassed im every criteria. If these technical aspects weren't relevant then the specs wouldn't have been presented as the device's selling point.
- detaro 7y agoAnd I'm saying the higher-class devices make it harder to achieve some things, so if those are interesting to you you are not paying more to be able to achieve less. They're good at different things (same reason someone would buy an Orange Pi instead of coding on their Laptop they already have for free, despite that having "better specs", but being unable to do or being bad at some things an SBC can do)