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Re:Jeff Geerling by sfsdf343425 on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:35AM (#38220914)
Baseline RAM Pi are still magnitudes cheaper, its a moot/niche above 2GB for most makers. Pi doesn't have to cater to lite servers only...

Gotta admit that Pi foundation never cared about batteries, especially since it's common with makers, audio removal etc...

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Re:Jeff Geerling by throw932490 on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:40AM (#38220996)
Pi4 2GB with power source, SD card, case, fan is like $100. You can have nice Atom MiniPC for that. Or old PC from ebay...
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Re:Jeff Geerling by sfsdf343425 on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:46AM (#38221068)
But these are used, cheap new Atom miniPC doesn't have GPIO, and brand new Atom SBCs with GPIO are more $$$ with the same SoC compared to miniPC since they aren't mass produced. A used Pi with sdcard/case/fan is much less than $40.
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Re:Jeff Geerling by ThrowawayR2 on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:03PM (#38221312)
USB GPIO dongles are a cheap addon to any x86 PC, e.g. "Adafruit General Purpose USB to GPIO" at https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
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