alt Hacker NewsYou're paying a premium for physical compatibility with a ton of niche accessories. Whether or not they make sense depends on how important those accessories are to your use case.
That and the prices never really came back down to earth after the chip shortage hikes.
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SecretDreams • yesterday at 3:07 PM
> You're paying a premium for physical compatibility with a ton of niche accessories.
Maybe this is the new narrative, but it wasn't how the Pi was initially developed and marketed.
It's just a touch too expensive for the use cases many hobbiest have.
> You're paying a premium for physical compatibility
No. There are a bunch of alternatives with some to full pin compatibility. Some being many times faster [1]. No new projects should use a new Raspberry Pi.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQ5ascBuCw