Skyrmir comments on The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another ‘unavoidable’ RAM price hike

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (5 children)

An ESP32-P4 is about the same ram, better IO options, but half the CPU of the original Pi for about $20 right now. So the tech has been progressing a little bit.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 52 minutes ago

The Pi Pico is a 32-bit processor for far less than $20.

A microcontroller is in a completely different category from the Pi 5

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 17 points 23 hours ago

ESP32-P4

Theres a ton of ebook readers that are using the esp32 as a baseline. and meshtastic. Its a fantastic set of chips and setup.

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[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 6 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

It's also been 14 years. "About the same ram...but half the CPU" for over half the price (original comment was wrong, it was $35, not $15) is not a flex. It's a stunning failure.

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[–] europeancricket@lemmy.world 1 point 2 hours ago

The economic aspect of Moore's law has been broken. Luckily we still have capabilities for a few more years of innovation in the performance scaling. For now.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The original Pi had 512MB not KB. It ran Linux and had an SD card "disk". The ESP32 series aren't in the same class.

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