It’s not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who’s this for, exactly?

  • kaidenshi@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Before the RAM and storage pricing nightmare, the performance vs price for a Pi 400/500 would be an acceptable trade off for some people. These days, it’s cheaper to buy a laptop with a busted screen on eBay and remove the top half. You get the performance of the HP keyboard at the Raspberry Pi price point.

    Thanks, AI overlords, I guess.

    • CannedYeet@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      A raspberry pi is not a serious replacement for PCs in the enterprise. There’s nothing the pi does that HP and Dell couldn’t do if they wanted. The Pi just seems cheap because it can cut corners that don’t matter to hobbyists but that enterprises would never accept.