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> The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Meanwhile, a refurbished corporate laptop with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD can be yours for $199 [1] I'm
by michaelt 7mo ago
> The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99.
Meanwhile, a refurbished corporate laptop with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD can be yours for $199 [1]
I'm sure there will still be people who want the Pi 5 but at these prices, I ain't one of them.
[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/327079631563 https://www.ebay.com/itm/327079631563
- tempest_ 7mo agoThose will dry up soon enough. Corporate laptop refreshes will be drawn out as they try and cost save on the increased price. You also better hope the aliexpress dont figure out a way to get the RAM out of those things because they will start harvesting it for sure if there is money to made.
- zozbot234 7mo agoFor most older laptops it's easy enough, you just open them up and take the RAM sticks out. There are SO-DIMM to DIMM adapters to fit a laptop memory stick in a DIMM socket.
- tredre3 7mo ago> Those will dry up soon enough. We're talking about a pi replacement. The Pi 5 is slower than a 10yo laptop. That's gives us a very vast pool of used laptops. > You also better hope the aliexpress dont figure out a way to get the RAM That is a real worry and I can see used machines being gutted because selling DDR3/4/5 sticks is way easier and profitable than the whole machine. Adapters for SODIMM to regular DIMM are readily available and cheap, too.
- bombcar 7mo agoThe EDU Neo is $500, too bad it’s not as versatile.
- Lord_Zero 7mo agoWhat is the edu neo
- Wingy 7mo agoThe MacBook Neo’s education price of $499
- bombcar 7mo agoIt blows my mind that a Pi is a significant portion of the cost of it.
- krallja 7mo agoAnd the Pi doesn't even come with a monitor, keyboard, speakers, or power supply!
- tempest_ 7mo agoThe Pi isnt a loss leader for user acquisition nor do they get to enjoy Apples economy of scale. Apple can take a small loss on this and it will still be worth it if they retain the users in their ecosystem.
- wqaatwt 7mo agoIs there any evidence that’s the case? They always had massively bigger margins than all other PC manufacturers so it’s unlikely they are selling it at a loss even if’s significantly reduced
- crote 7mo agoWindows 11 requiring a TPM is still going to force a decent number of replacements: extended support on W10 is $61 Y1, $122 Y2, $244 Y3. Delaying that refresh might actually end up the more expensive option.
- aembleton 7mo agoI recently did an install of Windows 11 on a machine without TPM To bypass the check during installation: Boot the laptop from your USB. When you see the "This PC can't run Windows 11" screen, press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt. Type regedit and hit Enter. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup. Right-click Setup, create a new Key named LabConfig. Inside LabConfig, create two DWORD (32-bit) values: BypassTPMCheck = 1 BypassSecureBootCheck = 1 Close the registry and the command prompt; the installer will now let you proceed.
- crote 7mo agoIt's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game, and unsupported hacks like these usually aren't well-received in corporate environments. Decent stop-gap for home use, though!
- MisterTea 7mo ago> Those will dry up soon enough. And worse, they're shucking surplus for RAM And SSD's now. I am seeing more and more eBay auctions for surplus PC's sans SSD and RAM. So the second hand market is going to be invaded by the reseller parasites leaving us with $50 CPU-in-a-box and $500+ RAM/SSD parts
- KPGv2 7mo agoSome people don't want trashy looking crap sitting around their family room in order to save $100
- ZenoArrow 7mo agoSecond hand equipment being cheaper than brand new equipment isn't much of a surprise.
- Sammi 7mo agoThose are not in the same order of magnitude in power consumption or physical size. This drastically changes their optimal use cases.
- romaniv 7mo agoRPis are used in a lot of embedded devices. From industrial IoT to music keyboards. You can't easily use refurbishes laptops for those[1]. -- [1] Korg Kronos with its crazy Intel Atom based architecture notwithstanding.