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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Launches For $120 USD
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostIt 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.
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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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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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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Originally posted by Grawp View PostI 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.
It's somewhat curious how today raspberry pi has better distribution network than intel with N100, heh.
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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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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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