Raspberry is not really cheap anymore. The start package (rp4 4gb + charger + sd + ethernet/hdmi cables) is 100 euros in my country.
Meanwhile you can get a GK3V mini pc on Aliexpress with a j4125, 8gb LPDDR4 and 256GB SSD for 180 euros, which probably has 3x-4x the performance of the pi.
The kits are always going to be marked up—and even more so today, since it's so hard to find individual Pis in stock anywhere.
Here in the US, the only way for many people to get a Pi 4 is in a kit that's at least $100 (sometimes scalped and marked up to $150-200 on Amazon or eBay). Until about 3 months ago, though, I could reliably find a model I wanted from Micro Center or one of the official Pi online resellers for $35-75 (list price).
Any reason why this is the case? Chip shortages? Backing up of imports?
I just noticed this the other day when looking to get a Pi 4 as a gift for my brother. It's crazy to think just a year or two ago I bought two at normal price, and now one can't find any individual boards anywhere really
Mostly the chip shortages—Raspberry Pi has pulled out all the stops but couldn't come anywhere close to meeting demand over 2021. And they even decided to focus production only on the BCM2711-based devices for the latter part of this year.
I’ve found this to be the case for most of the time Raspberry Pis have been around. The cost proposition has always relied on using other components people have “lying around”, like the power adapter, SD card, etc. However as the power quality requirements have gone up for each Pi release, old AC adapters can’t be used anymore, SD cards need to be better quality to handle the writes, and you want a case for it, etc. From my perspective you’ve always been looking at close to $100 to get everything you need for it to be useful.
That's quite a markup you're experiencing. A conversion based on US prices makes it seem like you should be able to get that stuff for a little more than sixty Euros. If you can get it at all: availability is tough right now all over, I assume.
Is that price difference about shipping costs or VAT or what?
> GK3V mini pc
That is a very cool looking thing, but targeting a different use case, I would think.
Not everyone has to buy that separately. For example, I have plenty of sd cards laying around.
For the charger you are probably right due to the rpi not working with every usbc adapter, but that's 10 euros.
You selected the 4GB one, but if you select the 2GB or 1GB version things get cheaper too.
I think they are great value for a very reasonable price.
I'd be interested if anyone can comment on commercial bulk procurement of Pis. Any idea what the volume discounts are? And also would be interesting to know what the supply has been like for the past year(s) for commercial customers.
I've heard anecdotally that most Pis sold are used in industry, so wouldn't be surprised if they're being prioritized.
Apple is not even against other operating systems on Macs. Bootcamp has been a thing for a long time (and apparently they're not against ARM Bootcamp were it possible [1]) and recently marcan mentioned how Apple added something that wouldn't be helpful for Apple, but is helpful to the Asahi Linux project.
I don’t understand the complaint. Steam is available and Apple clearly is playing ball with them, so what’s wrong? Is that the Windows API translation layer isn’t done?
It will be interesting what Microsoft will do, at first glance they don't care about advertisement and allowing ad-block would bring a lot of users to their ecosystem. (they already have soft adblock out of the box)
That probably because their operating system is infested with advertisements and data exfiltration mechanisms. Why would they need the browser to do it too?
You can't ask for more than that from someone who disagrees and is in control of the project. Also he's doing a pretty awesome job maintaining the project.
The posted link contains a detailed breakdown written by Vue's creator of why Vue, a similar tool to React chose to de-emphasize class-based components in favor of the composition API (hooks).
I thought you might be able to find some clues to why people pick hooks over class-based components in there.
It is like questioning about backend using a spring boot in every single service even when it is only for a simple store and fetch json from mongoDB. If you have the know-how, why not? Jumping between Vanilla and React projects can be counterproductive. If things get more complex you are prepared, if not, nobody will mind.
Meanwhile you can get a GK3V mini pc on Aliexpress with a j4125, 8gb LPDDR4 and 256GB SSD for 180 euros, which probably has 3x-4x the performance of the pi.