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Fagafruit is generally a bit more expensive than others, Micro Center sometimes has these for $300 or so...but still. I know if you need a small powerful board you are beheld to market forces, but we're starting to approach more industrial options here, and this is totally out of hobby range. You'd be better off finding an older i5 with 16GB on a real x86 platform.

To top it all off, it still uses a shitty USB connector for power - 25W worth, and still does not have any kind of storage past that shitty uSD card.

https://archive.is/Vkj36

Fagafruit is generally a bit more expensive than others, Micro Center sometimes has these for $300 or so...but still. I know if you need a small powerful board you are beheld to market forces, but we're starting to approach more industrial options here, and this is totally out of hobby range. You'd be better off finding an older i5 with 16GB on a real x86 platform. To top it all off, it still uses a shitty USB connector for power - 25W worth, and still does not have any kind of storage past that shitty uSD card. https://archive.is/Vkj36
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I can hit any Walmart and buy a low end PC for less than that. Raspberry Pis have reached the point where PC's are more of an option.

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I picked the story up from Hacker News, and all of the tards there were going on about how it's a specialized board for specialized uses. That may be true, but it's not really rated for industrial applications. I've built those systems and computing equipment has to survive environments that would kill a pi in short order.

One of my former employers considered it for their embedded product, but the lack of real storage onboard and the need for active cooling killed that.

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I've worked with embedded systems that work in 120 degree F warehouses. Raspberry Pi is a bitch by comparison.

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The last ones I dealt with operated near steam turbines.

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Agree. I can buy i5 and i7 in Sff that have more utility.

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$65 for a Le Potato.

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There are many cheaper options that run Armbian, which in my opinion seems to be a better maintained system that isn't constantly fucking with stuff just to do so.

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For about $350, you can get a Beelink with a Ryzen 7. Much faster than a Pi.

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Yes, there are a lot of options. You can probably find older machines like 6th-8th gen iCore equivalents for next to nothing if you ask around. Plenty of horsepower for any home server task you could throw at it save the most demanding video work.

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Yeah at this cost, I don't really see why you'd get a pi. Power savings maybe?

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French potato’s are gay surrender monkeys.

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I guess the DRAM factors into the price a lot, especially for the models that have lots of it. Here's my local dealer's choice of models and their prices. embed

DRAM prices are still soaring. https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/Memory-Prices-Surge-Up-to-90-From-Q4-2025 embed

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Well you are shopping on jewdafruit so what did you expect?

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I don't shop there, that's just the one that came up in the story. Locally, if available, they aren't much cheaper.