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Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 2 days ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 22 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

I wouldn't pay the current top-end price for a Pi. A mini is a better value now, for sure.

Just sharing that the "general purpose" use isn't a stretch or unreasonable.

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

How does the power use compare? Just curious, since my pi is almost always on.

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 hours ago

It probably depends what you have running on it. Mine is basically just a Plex server. I never checked power usage.

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