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Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC
- gnabgib 2y agoDiscussion (120 points, 17 hours ago, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038
- linotype 2y agoSo they’re basically doing what that laptop from years ago was trying to do? The one with the hand crank? Pretty wild value here.
- Refusing23 2y agothat chugs while playing youtube in firefox its nice and all but ... its just not fast enough
- replete 2y agoThis was a problem with pi4, is it seriously still an issue with pi5?
- theothertimcook 2y agoLandfill
- sergius 2y agoAnd they still have soldered RAM and no option to add an SSD... who is this for?
- hulitu 2y ago> One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC Funny definition of a "general-purpose desktop PC". Does it has BIOS or UEFI ? Plus the "PC" is usually x86(-64).
- XajniN 2y agoA mac is also a PC.