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I realised a while ago that it’s way cheaper to hunt for second-hand intel NUCs, and the resulting machine is way more powerful… And the RAM and storage is upgradeable, if the NUC didn’t come with plenty of storage or RAM already…
Plus x86 compatibility
Fucking hell. I want to get off Mr Bones wild ride.
Finally, I see this referenced in the wild
I’m hoping this is just April Fools
It would be an April Fools joke if it were a price drop instead.
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acquisition?
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all good. same
I almost bought a RPi and realized I’d get better value at a Dell mini PC. Sure it’s significantly bigger than a Pi, but it’s still small enough for my use case. I just don’t see a good reason to get a Pi anymore. It used to be a cheap hobbyist board. Now it’s…something else.
I wanted to upgrade my kids from Pi 4s to Pi 5s, but ended up just getting NUCs instead.
The only thing I can think of is GPIO compatibility these days.
Jesus who is spending $200+ on a raspberry pi?
You can get an entire kick ass 2/3 year old mini PC with everything included for the price of a single RPi4, let alone 5. And you don’t have to buy any kits or expansions to get full functionality.
Oh and that mini PC will have at least 2 - 3 times the specs of the RPi. It’s just not worth it anymore to buy Pis.
Which machines are people getting these days? I have a Dell Optiplex 3070 I’ve added a WiFi antenna to. It’s pretty small.
HP elitedesk here. Medical offices around me seem to can’t get rid of them fast enough. Got a neat little i5 7500T with 16GB of RAM for $80 :p I did swap the HDD for a SSD I had lying around but still.
Remembered I had an unopened Pi5-8GB on the shelf.
I would have been in the market for one, but they were already a terrible value proposition.
Meanwhile, Mac Mini prices have held stable at an already good price/performance ratio…
From my understanding Apple has memory contracts locked in for years ahead. This is a benefit they have for being an enormous player in the consumer electronics world. They can keep their memory prices “low” (or at least what Apple normally considers low) because of that.
Other smaller manufacturers don’t have that luxury. When their current contracts run out they have to negotiate new ones, and they will be negotiated at the current market rate.
