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Personally, I’m loving my Pi 5. It is just in the sweet spot, enough performance for what I need it to do, it’s portable, very low energy usage, it runs off an
by zarzavat 3y ago
Personally, I’m loving my Pi 5. It is just in the sweet spot, enough performance for what I need it to do, it’s portable, very low energy usage, it runs off an SD card so it’s very easy to re-image or swap images.
The NUC device is a desktop computer. If you want a desktop then buy a desktop, that’s not what a Pi is for (despite some unwise marketing to the contrary).
If the v5 is too expensive then pick up a v4, they are bound to get cheaper as v5 availability increases.
- geerlingguy 3y agoThis is a good take on it — I also like running mine off microSD cards, which makes it trivially easy to swap OSes when I'm tinkering. It's a different type of device for a different purpose than standard desktop computing. I would be interested in a Pi 500 if they decide to make one, but would really like having an M.2 2280 slot built in. Anything else would be a bonus. I have a Pi 400 set up for my kids to use to learn typing and mess around (I put some old Mac/DOS emulators on it and all my ancient apps from my old computers).
- wkat4242 3y agoYes M.2 and an audio port. That was sorely missing for a computer that's really built for use as a desktop.
- snypher 3y agoIf a Pi is portable so is a NUC, and they're probably both desktops.
- zarzavat 3y agoThe NUC is portable in a sense, but the Pi is at the apex of portability. It weighs basically nothing and takes up very little space. Perhaps most people don’t need to transport their Pi like me. Even so, the footprint definitely matters. The size and weight of the Pi means that it can be installed in many odd places. I have mine on a bookshelf.
- hulitu 3y ago> The NUC is portable in a sense, but the Pi is at the apex of portability. Yeah, because everyone has a 5V power supply sitting unused in a drawer. /s