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If 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,
by magicalhippo 2y ago
If 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)