Wasn’t the point of these to be dirt cheap and relatively simple? It seems like it would make more sense to just buy a used laptop.
Maybe someone else should start a new thing that goes back to making ultra cheap really basic single board computers. It seems like there’s a market for it that’s been left vacant.
Looking forward to the new Pi 6, with its luscious 32mb of ram
pi performance is pretty low though… I’ve been generally disappointed
Why?
So when they started adding HDMI and hardware video decoding support I figured it would be perfect for a simple HDTV driver… however, it’s basically impossible to watch a movie without glitches and stoppages.
I also attempted to use it with a very light linux distro as a simple web browser but it was always sluggish… at the price point, it seems you are better off getting some old laptop/desktop (if size is not a problem)
I am sure it would work as a headless something but at that level so would my 10 year old abandoned computer I just can’t bring myself to toss out hehehe
I made a Lineage-based box with an 8GB Pi 5 that works well. I tried a Pi 4B first, but it had the same problems you mention. Pi 5 is outrageously expensive now, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
The Pi4 can be overclocked to hell and turns into a beast.
You’ll need one of those kits with a fan and cooler though.
It’s wild there is a rpi with 8GB RAM (IMO). I wonder what people are doing with it.
There is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though. As for what you can do with it, one use case would be running something like Proxmox with a few VMs. Myself though I’d rather stick with my N100 system which is also x86.
Rock Pis can have up to 32 GB RAM, and a much more powerful processor (RK3588). You might need active cooling, though.
That’s a professional board right? I mean I can understand high specs to manage some million dollar machine, for an amateur not so much.
From my experience with Radxa boards, I don’t think they’re aimed at business users. They’re well-made and powerful for their size, and I 100% love the “let’s see how much stuff we can squeeze into an SBC” energy, but you do need time and some tech knowledge to set them up and iron out the bugs. They’re great dev boards, and of course a company with a good IT team can make good use of them, but a business buying these over better-supported platforms would be being penny wise and pound foolish.
Thanks for the info!
That’s as much as the gaming PC I built to play Skyrim on ultra settings in 2012.
I will never own a pi4 sad.
