You're paying a premium for physical compatibility with a ton of niche accessories. Whether or not they make sense depends on how important those accessories are to your use case.

That and the prices never really came back down to earth after the chip shortage hikes.

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nomel 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> You're paying a premium for physical compatibility

No. There are a bunch of alternatives with some to full pin compatibility. Some being many times faster [1]. No new projects should use a new Raspberry Pi.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQ5ascBuCw

	▲	arendtio 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thanks for the video. I just bought a RPI5 and was curious if this was a mistake, but after watching the whole 'I love PI' video, I am still okay with my choice. It is good to know that there are other boards with better multi-thread performance and AI capabilities. However, there are also a few things I disagree with in the test setup, such as rating only multithread performance and giving the best single-thread performance the lowest overall rating. In addition, concluding the AI tests without the extension board for the RPI5 seems a bit weird. So thank you for the video, but I think it depends on what you are trying to achieve and it is not a simple there you get more bang for your buck.
	▲	samlinnfer 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Your video rates the PI as 10 for support, 10 for ease of use and 7 for performance. Just the support and ease of use is enough. You're paying for a mature ecosystem where you know things work and you don't have to waste time struggling.
	▲	rcxdude 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Unless they want to keep going without needing to swap things out frequently and deal with the extremely poor support that most alternatives get.

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SecretDreams 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> You're paying a premium for physical compatibility with a ton of niche accessories.

Maybe this is the new narrative, but it wasn't how the Pi was initially developed and marketed.

It's just a touch too expensive for the use cases many hobbiest have.