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The market must be trying to tell us that they're under-priced. People want cheap computers badly, and "cheap" might be as much as $200. I had a lot of trouble
by ReactiveJelly 5y ago
The market must be trying to tell us that they're under-priced.
People want cheap computers badly, and "cheap" might be as much as $200. I had a lot of trouble finding an x86_64 box for under $400 a couple years ago, and ended up settling for a no-name with a shitty firmware that wouldn't boot GRUB for half the distros I tried to install.
- colejohnson66 5y agoIt’s not that they’re underpriced, but that there’s a chip shortage and scalpers are taking advantage of it.
- asdff 5y agoHonestly if your budget is raspberry pi levels you are better off probably buying some used dell desktop for as cheap as possible. Would be more powerful than the pi probably and a better platform for things like a home fileserver. People have built clusters out of those ultra low form factor dells.
- hattmall 5y agoChromebox is my preference. Switched out all my pi's for old chromeboxes and couldn't be more pleased. Bluetooth and WiFi work great out gate, always had issues with those on the Pis. Even the oldest model CPU is on par with PI4 I think. Built in ssd too.
- nine_k 5y agoIf you need an ARM Linux machine on a budget, I wonder how Odroid and Olinuxino offers look to you. They are in the same ballpark.
- tasha0663 5y ago> The market must be trying to tell us that they're under-priced. This is verbatim what scalpers say to explain themselves.