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Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Wtf who would pay that much for a fuckin raspberry poo

The entire point of raspberry pi is that they're like $15 bucks for a bunch of cheap components. That's why in every picture there's no housing or anything. It's just a $0.10 pcb and a few dollars here and there of components from the same mass produced factory that's still producing the same usb ports and microcontrollers from old motherboards in 1999

Are you sure $385 isn't for like two hundred of them? For like students?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    With FEX and 16GB of ram you can probably play low power PC games without much issue now, it's just a computer

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    But for the same money you can buy a real mini PC and not have to emulate them...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I don't think I'd call FEX or proton emulation, but yeah

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    I think Fex is. They even describe it that way themselves.

    Proton probably isn't. It's WINE with extra steps, isn't it?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    I mean there are definitely different kinds of emulation, I don't usually consider mapping library calls and dynamic/static recompilation to be emulation in the same way I think of like a ps2 emulator, but it's not inaccurate to say. I just wouldn't call them emulation personally.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    It seems really antithetical to the whole point of raspberry pi. Like a lowered/slammed truck that can't carry anything, or a bicycle with 100 training wheels and a gas motor.

    It's like they've lost the plot.

    It would be one thing if it was done by a user for fun, or otherwise was the exception to the rule. But having a $400 raspberry pi is ridiculous.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You're not wrong but...

    A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. Microcontrollers are IFAIK still as cheap as ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Its expensive bc raspberry pi has to have a single ram chip. The 16gb model is way overkill for most tasks that you should be using a pi for. If you need it you need, it's probably for business reasons and you're not super price sensitive.

    The 1 and 2 gig boards are 45/80 dollars on canakit.

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