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Re:The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC by pclmulqdq on Sunday June 16, 2024 @01:39PM (#40698748)
In this market, "cheap" is often comparative to performance. You can now get better capabilities for the same price.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC by spookie on Sunday June 16, 2024 @03:52PM (#40699606)
Sure, if you want to deal with strange problems no one has ever faced. RPi's strength isn't in meaningless performance benchmarks, is in actually getting stuff done.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC by pclmulqdq on Sunday June 16, 2024 @04:05PM (#40699702)
A mini PC with an x86 CPU is the opposite of "user-unfriendly." Compared with Raspberry Pis, laypeople can easily use those.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC by afavour on Sunday June 16, 2024 @05:35PM (#40700310)
They vary widely. I bought an off brand mini PC where the USB ports randomly lost power. There was no online community or support to speak of to help me figure out the problem. In that regard the Pi is far better.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC by sdh9 on Sunday June 16, 2024 @11:07PM (#40701996)
Pis eliminate variables, for sure. But, if you stick to name-brand business machines off lease, I doubt you'll have a problem like that.
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