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I considered the same, but it's not cost effective. You can buy a used laptop or PC with much better specs for the same money.
by nabla9 5y ago
I considered the same, but it's not cost effective.
You can buy a used laptop or PC with much better specs for the same money.
- gkfasdfasdf 5y agoAgree, looks like the screen costs around $160? With the rpi 4, storage, power, could easily exceed $250...whereas a Samsung Chromebook 4 which can run x86 Linux, has keyboard/trackpad/webcam/battery, can be had for $80 from Walmart.
- CodeWriter23 5y agoRaspberry Pi 4s are fetching $100 and up presently. Just for the board, not a fancy integrated for instant boot up solution.
- afavour 5y agoDifferent use case, surely? This isn’t a laptop, it has no keyboard. And a used PC is going to take up a lot more space. I see this as a competitor to, say, using an iPad or Android tablet as a kiosk-style device.
- mbreese 5y agoI agree -- it looks like there are mounting points on the back. While the review treated it as a pretty thick tablet or external screen, I think the main use case would be a wall mounted display, in something like kiosk mode. Maybe like a room availability monitor? But definitely something where the form is equally important as the function and a laptop wouldn't work. But, I also think the ability to use this as a portable external/secondary monitor is quite interesting. That does make it more useful.