When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385

Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by switchbak on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:56PM (#50429904)

I'd much rather buy a 5 year old mini Dell (or Nuc or whatever) that I can reliably put Linux on than some kind of one-off thing like this.

Call me cynical after being burned countless times on niche-ass platforms. Even my Framework 13" has a flurry of issues I've never seen on more mainstream hardware. Life is too short to worry about bizarre firmware issues in hardware that no one is paid to support.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by jauntywundrkind on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:04PM (#50431127)

There's plenty of reason to be conservative and that's a solid recommendation.

I for one am delighted that you can buy a modern-ish high performance, modern processing node based system, that's small, that has such incredible capabilities, that's super power efficient. And that finally it runs a mean Linux!

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