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It's wild that with the educational discount ($499!) the base model is within striking distance of a Raspberry Pi once you add in the power supply, case, heat s

by _mlbt 2y ago

It's wild that with the educational discount ($499!) the base model is within striking distance of a Raspberry Pi once you add in the power supply, case, heat sink, and an SSD. I don't think there is anything else out there that has this combination of size, performance, price, and energy efficiency.

angoragoats 2y ago
> It's wild that with the educational discount ($499!) the base model is within striking distance of a Raspberry Pi once you add in the power supply, case, heat sink, and an SSD. Uh, what? There are lots of nice things about the new Mac Minis for sure, but this is the weirdest and most wrong thing I think I've heard thus far. I went to Micro Center's website and pieced this together (all parts are official Raspberry Pi brand unless I indicated otherwise): Raspberry Pi 5 8GB: $69.99 Case: $9.99 PSU: $11.99 Active cooler: $4.99 52Pi NVMe adapter board: $7.99 Inland 256GB NVMe SSD: $24.99 Total: $130. You could buy almost four of these for the price of one Mac Mini with edu discount. Side note: The SSD above appears to be literally the only 256GB NVMe drive that Micro Center carries. Just goes to show you how much the rest of the PC industry has moved on while Apple's still stuck on 256GB. Also, for $13 more you can get a similar Inland 512GB SSD instead (a $200 upgrade at Apple, whether you get edu pricing or not).