Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Launches For $120 USD

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  • AkulaMD
    Junior Member
    • Oct 2023
    • 28

    #41
    Originally posted by hajj_3 View Post
    that is so expensive for a pi5 board.
    Where is the like button?

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    • mangeek
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2012
      • 403

      #42
      Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
      It wasn't that long ago that a quad-core 16 GB machine was the realm of professional workstations and high-end gaming rigs. Now it's $120 and fits in your palm. Lol.
      Please remember that the horsepower of the Pi 5 is about the same as budget PCs from about ten years ago. Four cores and 16GB don't make it faster than the office PC you wanted to throw out the window in 2015.

      I like the Pi 5, but even if it's 3x as fast as the Pi 4, it's still a mid-range embedded device that's slow as a daily-driver for regular browsing and office workloads (and that's OK, it's not meant to compete with mainstream PCs).

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      • Raka555
        Junior Member
        • Nov 2018
        • 681

        #43
        The RPI-Zero is the only one true to the spirit of RPI imo.

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        • halo5
          Junior Member
          • Apr 2024
          • 7

          #44
          Originally posted by hajj_3 View Post
          that is so expensive for a pi5 board.
          The Orange Pi is looking really competitive with the built-in NVMe M.2 interface...

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          • sdack
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2011
            • 1724

            #45
            Only a drunk says "leading rare".

            It is either called "rarest" or "most rare" for when it is the rarest of complaints. Or we call it "uncommon" to distinguish between whether it is common or rare and when we mean something else. Only then do we say how common, uncommon or rare it is. We can then call it less or least common, more or most uncommon before calling it rare, rarer or rarest.

            In the context of the article would "rarer" have been sufficient:

            One of the rarer complaints over the Raspberry Pi 5 ...
            Last edited by sdack; 10 January 2025, 11:37 AM.

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            • Grawp
              Junior Member
              • Jul 2009
              • 44

              #46
              I keep hearing that N100 mini PC is cheaper or at least as cheap. Perhaps there are countries where the statement is not wrong but not in EU.
              With NVME hat, cooler, and that crazy nonstandard 5V 5A power supply it is still cheaper than cheapest N100 with same amount of RAM and PSU and by quite a margin.

              (I never ever use Chinese and Polish markets like Aliexpress and Allegro. Perhaps there lies the problem? But then would it be really fair to compare west-designed SBC with next day delivery and with a pledge how long it is going to be manufactured at minimum with some ten time rebranded product without any standardized form factor that will disappear in a blink of an eye or worse will be replaced with a completely different product with the same name.......?)

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              • Ilmarix
                Junior Member
                • Aug 2024
                • 3

                #47
                Originally posted by Grawp View Post
                I keep hearing that N100 mini PC is cheaper or at least as cheap. Perhaps there are countries where the statement is not wrong but not in EU.
                I'm glad it isn't just me who was confused by all the people saying N100 is cheaper when I too found 8G N100 versions at about 300.

                It's somewhat curious how today raspberry pi has better distribution network than intel with N100, heh.

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                • Cmdr_Zod
                  Junior Member
                  • Sep 2023
                  • 16

                  #48
                  16GB RAM is acceptable for a desktop that sees only light to medium use.
                  But the growing power consumption with every new generation of Raspberry Pi is really turning me off.
                  Personally, I would combine the Pi 5 16GB with an NVMe for good performance as a desktop, but finding a passive cooled case for this combo seems a bit hard, and the total price (RPi5, M2-adapter, NVMe-SSD, passive cooled case, power supply), will no longer be that low.

                  Suddenly, some AMD powered thin client (HP T630, which is slower, or HP T640 which is faster) on the used hardware market seems a lot more attractive. They may also need some upgrade, but they take standard SO-DIMMS and M.2 SSDs, and you don't need to buy an M.2 Adapter first. You get a well established AMD64 platform, without any bottlenecks in IO. Still pretty compact system, and reliable too.

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                  • brad0
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2012
                    • 1010

                    #49
                    Originally posted by Cmdr_Zod View Post
                    Personally, I would combine the Pi 5 16GB with an NVMe for good performance as a desktop
                    Except with the processor there is no good performance. It's slow.

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                    • rclark
                      Senior Member
                      • Oct 2021
                      • 200

                      #50
                      I just ordered one... Just for fun. No other reason. My use is not for a desktop as I already have all the 'desktops' I need. These credit card size computers are for hobby software/hardware projects or small servers. I really don't know how people use all the memory. I am writing this on one of my desktops (running KUbuntu) and have firefox open and thunderbird and few other apps and I am 'only' using 2.26G of memory.... 16GB really is overkill. Just checked my RPI5-4G that I am using as a redis/pihole/etc server and it is using 610M. Checking my running Startrek computer it is using only 258M. I remember the days when we talked about K bytes ... not giga....
                      Last edited by rclark; 10 January 2025, 03:57 PM.

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