Those have gotten rather expensive.
But maybe the 4 will become available and cheap now?
Wow, $80. I haven’t looked into these devices since the first one, but I thought the point of them was to be very cheap. I do wonder what these new more powerful ones are capable of. Perhaps the performance justifies the price.
That’s a point, and that is still very cheap. There are many other models still available that are probably a better option for small hobby projects or people learning programming or physical computing.
These are also the higher memory variants. Lower memory variants will likely come later at a lower price point.
Hopefully they do release 1 and 2GB memory varoants which should be $35 and $45 respectively if they follow the pricing of previous models. The performance does look like a big upgrade over the Pi 4 at least.
The lack of full size HDMI is still pretty disappointing.
I’d rather have an M.2 connector without requiring a HAT.
I’ll stick with my Orange Pi 5 for now which comes with one, tyvm.
I gave the Orange Pi 5 a try and I love it for hosting/data intensive applications. The real M.2 for a SSD is a game changer.
I still use RPi boards for all kinds of embedded solutions, especially once it’s GPIO based work, but for server/network kinds of work I put it on the Orange Pi 5 board.
M.2 is a serious win. That’s why I couldn’t believe the RPi5 didn’t include one natively.
I have a mix of Orange and Raspberry Pis. It all depends on their features, specs, and price point for the job. But if I don’t need a HAT, Orange usually wins out.
Theres so many better options at this point that these are basically pointless unless you need a newer broadcom chip
Could you suggest a couple SBC alternatives that I can look at? Currently using some Pi3s and Pi4s for some projects and interested in what I could switch to. I’m not using the GPIO or Pi camera, I am using USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and like the size, price, low power draw, and debian support on the Pi.
CM4 is the way to go IMO. Theres tons of compatible carrier boards from super slim boards that only use one of the socket connectors to large scale cluster boards.
Theres also alternative modules with different chips that are compatible (AFAIK) with all of the carrier boards.
I hope the availability will be better than with the Pi 4.
Perfect, can’t wait for mine to ship! 🥳
NGL I still have alot of love for the ESP series for doing little automation stuffs. I miss back when the Pi’s were cheap. The Orange Pis seem nice.
The price has come up so much that it’s hard to recommend. If you include the cost of the power transfo, case and hdmi convertor you’re close to the NUC-like territory, which brings far more power
I feel like these fit a different niche. The GPIO and onboard cameras and such are super useful in some projects. I have 2 pi4’s and a bunch of zero W’s and zero W2’s. They all do different server or client things with various sensors, cameras and such and only one is anywhere near a monitor. Many are on battery or POE, which is a big help. If you’re just trying to use it like a desktop, look elsewhere.
Luckily the 4 and 5 can just use USB-C for power and since I only need to see the screen during setup I bought a cheap 2 pack of 4k mini-HDMI to HDMI adapters for like $12 on amazon.
You’re right of course that I’m speaking from a cheap desktop / streambox / server use. But then again this post is about the ‘big’ Pi.
For the smaller ones I’d hope they can return to really cheap, PoE integrated and low power over compute power
