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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:09:56 +0000
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On 12/01/2025 06:51, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:19:33 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>     $40 ? Are you buying in the USA ??? Pi's are EXPENSIVE,
>>     check Amazon US. Pi5 + CanaKit box, PS, fan ... you're talking
>>     minimum $135 depending on options.
> 
Pi5 16GB

£114.90 incl. VAT
Stock: In stock

At my local Pi-man.

No case or anything. I make my own cases anyway.

> $40 more than the 8GB version. That is the Canakit I bought. It wasn't
> Black Friday but there was some sort of sale and I paid $136. I had been
> thinking about getting one but the sale pushed me over the edge.
> 
> This Ubuntu box is a Beelink SER4 that I bought in 2022 for $389. It has a
> Ryzen 7 4700U 8-core processor with 16GB of memory. Beelink has expanded
> its offerings since 2022 and I don't recall what they had on the low end.
> The SER4 has virtually the same specs as my Acer Swift 3 laptop so I knew
> it was capable.
> 
This Mint box is a HP elite desk 800 that cost me about £230 IIRC

Plus another £20 for another 16GB RAM

> I've been concentrating on the Pico Ws, comparing CircuitPython,
> MicroPython, and C but I did hang a DHT11 temperature/humidity sensor on
> the Pi to test the GPIO using Python.
> 
GPIO on a PI under linux is a breeze.

Picos are not bad either.

The Pico is an adventure to get anything going without using the ghastly 
python, which is slow and limited



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