Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC (arstechnica.com)

18 points by jnord 1y ago ↗ HN

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Discussion (120 points, 17 hours ago, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038

So they’re basically doing what that laptop from years ago was trying to do? The one with the hand crank? Pretty wild value here.

Refusing23 1y ago ↗

that chugs while playing youtube in firefox

its nice and all but ... its just not fast enough

replete 1y ago ↗

This was a problem with pi4, is it seriously still an issue with pi5?

theothertimcook 1y ago ↗

Landfill

sergius 1y ago ↗

And they still have soldered RAM and no option to add an SSD... who is this for?

hulitu 1y ago ↗

> One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC

Funny definition of a "general-purpose desktop PC". Does it has BIOS or UEFI ? Plus the "PC" is usually x86(-64).

XajniN 1y ago ↗

A mac is also a PC.