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Why would anyone buy a Raspberry Pi when they can get a fully decked out Mac Pro? There are different use cases and computers are already pretty powerful. Mayb
by Larrikin 2y ago
Why would anyone buy a Raspberry Pi when they can get a fully decked out Mac Pro?
There are different use cases and computers are already pretty powerful. Maybe your local model won't be able to produce tests that check all the corner cases of the class you just wrote for work in your massive code base.
But the small model is perfectly capable of summarizing the weather from an API call and maybe tack on a joke that can be read out to you on your speakers in the morning.
- talldayo 2y ago> Why would anyone buy a Raspberry Pi when they can get a fully decked out Mac Pro? They want compliant Linux drivers?
- MrDrMcCoy 2y agoSince when did Broadcom provide those?
- talldayo 2y agoArguably since the first model, which (for everything it lacked) did have functioning OpenGL 2.0-compliant drivers.
- MrDrMcCoy 2y agoMy memory is fuzzy, but I recall that some models had very limited hardware acceleration support in the driver stack for things like video codecs, OpenCL, and Vulcan, unless you used the official kernel with the Broadcom blob. I never liked running that due to bloat and the age of the kernel/Debian they ship. All that combined with the performance of the SOC compared to its peers from Rockchip/Mediatek/Samsung and lack of eMMC support pretty much drove me away from Raspberry Pi devices in favor of Radxa and ODROID boards.