Okay that’s good to know. Honestly I always considered a Pi a single use, light weight device that just happens to run common ARM64. When they went for 8/16GB of RAM it felt like they were trying to turn them into mini general purpose computers.
And they do work like great general purpose computers. They have no moving parts, no fan and linux. So they are robust as fuck. Get the one that is coming in its own keyboard and you have everything you need.
I bought a 16G for a project shortly after they came out on sale at Microcenter. It’s sitting in a closet right now, and it makes me feel bad that it’s not in use. I have Pi3Bs deployed everywhere, but no need for this monstrosity. Today.
This is for 16GB. 1G is $45, 2G is $77.
My 1G pi three is still working fine.
No RPI is supposed to cost me a gill or a fin though.
Okay that’s good to know. Honestly I always considered a Pi a single use, light weight device that just happens to run common ARM64. When they went for 8/16GB of RAM it felt like they were trying to turn them into mini general purpose computers.
I have two running several containers each, and another running a full Linux distro with desktop and browser for a family chrome board.
If they have a little RAM they do great.
Why not get something like a Beelink mini PC at this price? At least that gets you a Ryzen 5 cpu.
I wouldn’t pay the current top-end price for a Pi. A mini is a better value now, for sure.
Just sharing that the “general purpose” use isn’t a stretch or unreasonable.
How does the power use compare? Just curious, since my pi is almost always on.
And they do work like great general purpose computers. They have no moving parts, no fan and linux. So they are robust as fuck. Get the one that is coming in its own keyboard and you have everything you need.
I have an 8 node pi cluster that hosts a bunch of different things. They are pretty great.
I bought a 16G for a project shortly after they came out on sale at Microcenter. It’s sitting in a closet right now, and it makes me feel bad that it’s not in use. I have Pi3Bs deployed everywhere, but no need for this monstrosity. Today.
In other words, 1G of RAM accounts for 32$?
Title is kinda misleading then. The comments prove it.