661
Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
186 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 109 points 2 days ago (11 children)

This is for 16GB. 1G is $45, 2G is $77.

My 1G pi three is still working fine.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Okay that’s good to know. Honestly I always considered a Pi a single use, light weight device that just happens to run common ARM64. When they went for 8/16GB of RAM it felt like they were trying to turn them into mini general purpose computers.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    I have two running several containers each, and another running a full Linux distro with desktop and browser for a family chrome board.

    If they have a little RAM they do great.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    Why not get something like a Beelink mini PC at this price? At least that gets you a Ryzen 5 cpu.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    I bought a 16G for a project shortly after they came out on sale at Microcenter. It's sitting in a closet right now, and it makes me feel bad that it's not in use. I have Pi3Bs deployed everywhere, but no need for this monstrosity. Today.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent