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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by brudgers on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:43AM (#12890902)
My take is that nobody is doing better than Pi in terms of the community Pi targets, e.g. students, amateurs and greenhorns alongside professionals. There's a critical mass with Pi that attracts industry players to be on the platform with what counts for decent support in the embedded world, e.g. Microsoft and Canonical.

For me, that's worth $15 per board.

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by geezerjay on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:05AM (#12891560)
> For me, that's worth $15 per board.

Unfortunately, the Raspberry Pi 3 sells for over 50€ per board.

The Raspberry Pi zero, in spite of being marketed as a 10€ computer, in practice can't be purchased at all.

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by brudgers on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:14AM (#12891662)
In the US, the Pi 3 runs about $35 on Amazon. VAT may effect pricing in other places.
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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by Tepix on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:01AM (#12892041)
The Raspberry Pi Zero has been in stock for the last couple of weeks.

Look at http://www.whereismypizero.com/

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by noonespecial on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:25PM (#12894086)
"THIS PRODUCT IS LIMITED TO 1 UNIT PER CUSTOMER"

Always. Everywhere. Wanted 25 units to teach a robot class to some local kids at the Hackerspace. Had to buy 3's instead. Even if I'd placed 25 separate orders, the cost of individual shipping on each vs the cost savings of the combined shipping on the 3's put the price within spitting distance.

Pi zero is an ad. A loss leader. A way to have an answer, any answer, to the flood of $7 Allwinner wonder-boards on AliExpress.

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by blacksmith_tb on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:20PM (#12893420)
The Zero is a very different devboard, though - you will need to invest in assorted adapters and hubs if you want to connect it to just about anything other than power... it is useful in small spaces, but for anything else spending a little more to get something like the CHIP is well worth it, and for use a small PC, going to the RPi 3 is probably wiser.
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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by Florin_Andrei on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:12PM (#12893934)
Yup, that's how it's supposed to be.

Want to make a micro-computer? Get the RPi 3.

Want to make a robot or drone? Get the RPi Zero.

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Re:64-bit Orange Pi – A Quad Core Computer for $20 by whiskers on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:06PM (#12895094)
The Raspberry Pi 3 is available from many vendors for $35 + sales taxes. You can pick it up on our site for £32 including VAT (that's EUR30 before taxes or EUR36 including taxes): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-3
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