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https://i.imgur.com/yiR1L1d.png https://i.imgur.com/yiR1L1d.png https://i.imgur.com/dnJACSd.png https://i.imgur.com/dnJACSd.png (these had a $25 rebate) these
by paulmd 2y ago
https://i.imgur.com/yiR1L1d.png https://i.imgur.com/yiR1L1d.png
https://i.imgur.com/dnJACSd.png https://i.imgur.com/dnJACSd.png (these had a $25 rebate)
these were $115 barebones iirc (add SSD and memory). https://www.servethehome.com/zotac-zbox-bi320-u-w2-review-solid-network-box/ https://www.servethehome.com/zotac-zbox-bi320-u-w2-review-so...
$180 loaded for the whole thing (and this is indicative of what I paid for ssd+memory at the time, etc) https://i.imgur.com/9nmBQ0V.png https://i.imgur.com/9nmBQ0V.png https://i.imgur.com/I98CS6i.png https://i.imgur.com/I98CS6i.png
like idk what to say dude but MSRP reviews aren't always reflective of street prices back then, things used to go back on clearance sales before moore's law died.
yes, you absolutely could get x86 stuff that was price-competitive with the rpi once you loaded it up. the $35 price is, as I have stated, a red herring considering all the stuff that nobody had on-hand in 2012 like proper usb chargers that could run a rpi stable, plus the massive kernel problems involved for the first few years.
It's $100 loaded cost for a raspberry pi 1b or 1b+ that doesn't even work, because of kernel bugs I already linked, or just buy x86 for $75-180 and get something an order of magnitude faster that actually works and runs standard x86 distros and drivers. Stop comparing 1/3 of a pc to a out-of-the-box pc as if the price means anything at that point, this is getting to be bad-faith.
Especially when the product didn’t fucking work.
Like it’s the same damn story as ROCm, right? People want serious financial consideration as if they have delivered a working product, minus the delivering the working product. Come back in 5 years when your product works.
I will sell you a brick with a piece of paper that says “10,000 tflops” taped to it. The perf/$ will be out of this world, but there will be some “usability issues”. PM me for details.