Re:The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
by hhh on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:58PM
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The RPi would be viable in my work at any price lower than the cheapest Intel NUC. We’ve bought 800 since November. We’ve decimated our Windows licensing costs, power use, MTBI, and shrunk our attack surface considerably.
There is really no competitor that has even been a consideration for us. Software stack is the hardest to get right with them at scale for fleet management IMO.
Re:The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
by shard on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:54PM
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Do you mean that your company has switched 800 employees from Windows machines to RPi? Are the 800 people non-engineering? Are the RPis thin clients? Everything running in the cloud?
Re:The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
by jenscow on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:26PM
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I was thinking servers.
Re:The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
by moffkalast on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:56PM
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Yeah the fact is that the more demand there is for it the cheaper they can make it, so everybody wins in the end.
Well except the people living around the place where the raw materials are extracted, but that's another story.
It is, especially when you consider economies of scale with things like computer production.
Building 50 boards is expensive. Building 500 is cheaper. Building 5 million? That's now custom equipment dedicated to the project, and costs just plummet per unit.
I also like the Pi4 model in which the "higher end" versions seem to be more profitable, subsidizing the lower cost/RAM models.