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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by reeredfdfdf on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:19PM (#50429349)
If you need GPIO pins, ESP32 is good enough for lots of use cases. If you just need a small low-power PC, used enterprise thin clients and mini-pc's (google project superminimicro) offer more while still idling around 10W or less.
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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by nijave on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:29PM (#50429492)
Yeah, you can also combine and use both and still come out ahead.

ESP32 handles IO and streams data somewhere else that does any processing needed on more powerful hardware.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by ssernikk on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:57PM (#50429936)
Unless you are space-constrained. Then something like RaspberryPi Compute Module is hard to replace.
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