Apropos of the thread: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Raspberry-pi-Support-Pi-4-p-4097.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU

Apropos of the thread: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Raspberry-pi-Support-Pi-4-p-4097.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Ra... (a fan for the CPU that is reminiscent of the first "big" Pentium fans). I asked on twitter if the RasPi had "jumped the shark" here, being sucked into territory it wasn't really designed for. As someone who has lived through the microcomputer revolution it is amazing to see the "$100 desktop" at this point of history. If we arbitrarily pick 30 years as a delta (so 1989 vs 2019) and use BYTE[1] as a reference a 20MHz 80386 desktop with a 40MB hard drive was $2500 (as a clone, name brands were more). An actually comparable computer (32 bit processor at 20MHz, 1MB RAM, 640x480 graphics, 40MB+ of storage (ignoring for the moment "protected mode") today can be built for less than $10. That is a huge step function to try to absorb. [1] https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1989-10/page/n347 https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1989-10/page/n347