alt Hacker NewsYeah, Pi 5 2gb is ~20% more expensive compared to pi3b on release, factoring in inflation (Both in including VAT and local prices)
It's 10 bucks more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Still half the price that I see intel NUCs for sale. Which of course are way more capable. But still, I don't mind the price that much.
I could go with a cheaper alternative, but then AFAIK you might have to fiddle with images, kernel and documentation. For me that is worth 10 bucks.
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>Yeah, Pi 5 2gb is ~20% more expensive compared to pi3b on release, factoring in inflation (Both in including VAT and local prices)
I don't really care how it compares to past models or inflation to justify its price tag. I was just comparing to to what you can buy on the used market today for the same price and it gets absolutely dunked on in the value proposition by notebooks since the modern full spec RPi is designed to more of a ARM PC than an cheap embedded board.
60 Euros for 2GB and 100 for 8GB models is kind of a ripoff if you don't really need it for a specific niche use case.
I think an updated Pi-zero with 2GB RAM and better CPU stripped of other bells and whistles for 30 Euros max, would be amazing value, and more back to the original roots of cheap and simple server/embedded board that made the first pi sell well.
> Yeah, Pi 5 2gb is ~20% more expensive compared to pi3b
What prices are you using for the 3b and 5 to get this percentage? The lowest percentage I got from available data is a 57% increase ($35 -> $55)
The main things I use Pis for are
1. Testing images to be deployed on customer Pis.
2. Testing software on ARM64 Linux. Pis are still cheaper than used Apple Silicon Macs, and require less fiddling to run Linux. I currently have a free Oracle Cloud instance that would work just as well for this, but it could go away at any time and it's a PITA to reprovision.
3. Running Mathematica, because it's free on Pi, I only use it a few times a year, and a fully-loaded Pi 5 is cheaper than a single-year personal license to run it on any other platform.
4. Silly stuff like one Pi 3 I have set up to emulate a vintage IBM mainframe.