this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2026
680 points (99.0% liked)

Technology

89588 readers
3422 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
680
Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 4 days ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
213 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Okay that’s good to know. Honestly I always considered a Pi a single use, light weight device that just happens to run common ARM64. When they went for 8/16GB of RAM it felt like they were trying to turn them into mini general purpose computers.

[–] KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org 26 points 4 days ago

And they do work like great general purpose computers. They have no moving parts, no fan and linux. So they are robust as fuck. Get the one that is coming in its own keyboard and you have everything you need.

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have two running several containers each, and another running a full Linux distro with desktop and browser for a family chrome board.

If they have a little RAM they do great.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why not get something like a Beelink mini PC at this price? At least that gets you a Ryzen 5 cpu.

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't pay the current top-end price for a Pi. A mini is a better value now, for sure.

Just sharing that the "general purpose" use isn't a stretch or unreasonable.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does the power use compare? Just curious, since my pi is almost always on.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

It probably depends what you have running on it. Mine is basically just a Plex server. I never checked power usage.

[–] bhhaskin@lemmy.bitsofsimplicity.com 2 points 3 days ago

I have an 8 node pi cluster that hosts a bunch of different things. They are pretty great.