▲ 1074 ▼ Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com) submitted 2 years ago by gamma@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml 266 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Llamadramas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Is it something you could run an arcade emulator from? Thinking of building my kids a tiny arcade. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] droidpenguin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago That would be more than capable. Retro emulation can run on very low end hardware. But here's an ebay listing for same model that I bought earlier. It doesn't include an SSD but you can buy M.2 SSDs for very cheap which I also did. Plus they're much faster and more reliable than micro SD cards. It's very easy to open the machine up which I liked. RAM upgrades are cheap too but 8GB is a lot for most cases. A lot of corporate environments use these so when they upgrade you can find them used for dirt cheap, if you don't mind some possible cosmetic defects. Mine are just stacked on a shelf and I just use them as servers for docker and whatnot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] droidpenguin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago That would be more than capable. Retro emulation can run on very low end hardware. But here's an ebay listing for same model that I bought earlier. It doesn't include an SSD but you can buy M.2 SSDs for very cheap which I also did. Plus they're much faster and more reliable than micro SD cards. It's very easy to open the machine up which I liked. RAM upgrades are cheap too but 8GB is a lot for most cases. A lot of corporate environments use these so when they upgrade you can find them used for dirt cheap, if you don't mind some possible cosmetic defects. Mine are just stacked on a shelf and I just use them as servers for docker and whatnot. permalink fedilink source parent