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Great! All of these are quantitative metrics I (and many others) don't care about. - All save for one machine in my home are now ARM. I like the consistency,
by lloeki 2y ago
Great!
All of these are quantitative metrics I (and many others) don't care about.
- All save for one machine in my home are now ARM. I like the consistency, e.g I can share Nix derivations or Docker images.
- N100 has no GPIO, which I like to tinker with from time to time.
- N100 does not support my favourite HATs that I own or consider as potential buy.
- N100 are one size fits all. There's a whole array of Pi cases and thermal management that can be picked up for any reason ranging from purely technical and practical purposes (fan vs passive, sealed vs open, human/environment protection...) or simply because it's fun and engaging (e.g NESPi case with SSD cartridges)
- N100 come in subtle variations that you have to care about. Pis are "fixed targets" physically, hardware-wise, and culturally, which makes them easy to consistently target, support, recommend, educate about, or find books for (e.g gifts for kids).
- N100 are this century nondescript dull beige boxes, while Pis are engaging through and through.
Pis and N100s are qualitatively different. A Pi5 is simply an upgrade over a Pi4. All that matters is that they're fast enough.
- magicalhippo 2y agoIf you don't care about performance, which you just said you didn't, then the RPi4 ticks all the boxes you mentioned. Given the list of things you care about, the RPi5 is not really an upgrade over the RPi4. Hence why I think it's a very niche board. Had they instead made the RPi5 be a cheap RPi4, I think it would have been much more interesting. I bought some RPi4's 2GB boards when they were $30 each. That was a great price and enables a lot of fun and interesting use-cases.
- redserk 2y agoFocusing on cheap would be the real “niche” area here. There are plenty of alternative boards if price is your driving concern.
- magicalhippo 2y agoThe cheap ones I've seen are almost all Chinese boards with limited support. The appeal of the RPi has always been that you can have some confidence it will work.
- redserk 2y agoSure but that’s just unrealistic to expect getting everything and at the price point you want. Pi’s niche is the ecosystem. It hasn’t been about cheap in a long while.
- teamonkey 2y ago> I bought some RPi4's 2GB boards when they were $30 each. $30? That was a great price indeed. In 2019 I bought a 2GB Pi4 from an approved seller for £44, which is about £56 in today's money. The 4GB Pi5 now sells for £57 from that same seller (the 2GB Pi4 sells for £42, or £32 in 2019's money)