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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by thinkmassive on Monday February 11, 2019 @11:00AM (#19135364)
Exactly! $5 Zero, $10 Zero W, still an excellent deal compared to alternatives. An ESP dev board or a Feather costs more, and those don’t run Linux.

People who complain about the cost making their projects difficult should speak up about the alternatives they’re jumping to instead.

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by altmind on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:40PM (#19140283)
esp32 boards(not a devboard, but rpi is not a devboard too) starts from $4.42 with free shipping on aliexpress. yet you are right - less ports, slower, less memory, no linux and a different microarchitecture.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by thinkmassive on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:34AM (#19143724)
ESP32 without a devkit is just a surface mount chip. It would be more fair to compare that with the RPi’s SoC alone.
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