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Is RS components trying to screw Raspberry pi?

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tom66:
The Jetson Nano is a neat board but it pulls about 10W under high CPU load - for many applications that is a problem.  You can cap it to about 5W but the performance is quite poor, CPU wise slower than a Pi 4 as the GPU eats up so much of the power budget.

james_s:
IMO the cost and power consumption of the Jetson Nano puts it in a whole different class than the RPi. There are applications where it would be a good fit, but in most cases I'd just go with a mini PC if I were going to spend that much.

MK14:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 07, 2022, 08:44:27 pm ---IMO the cost and power consumption of the Jetson Nano puts it in a whole different class than the RPi. There are applications where it would be a good fit, but in most cases I'd just go with a mini PC if I were going to spend that much.

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Also, I think we have got to, or are rapidly getting to the point.  That these (higher end) SBCs, should at least have either a M.2 slot and/or eMMC (memory or slot), having a microSD card slot as well, is fine.

M.2's have got to the price/capacity/speed/size points, making them somewhat desirable, and microSD cards tend to be unreliable, if used as the ONLY boot medium.

Veteran68:
In addition to various micros, I do a lot of stuff with Pi's and have several in the 3B+ and 4 lines. I've been able to snag 2-3 Pi 4B's and Zero 2 W's over the past couple years but it hasn't been easy, so I'm always on the lookout for alternative solutions.

I realize a lot of people in this forum will have a GPIO requirement, but if not and if you're in North America, a cheap and readily available SBC with horsepower equivalent to a Pi 3B+ is the Inovato Quadra. It runs Armbian, a popular and pretty robust Arm-based Debian distro. It's great for things like small servers and IoT hubs (PiHole, Home Assistant, MQTT broker, etc.). Cost is $29 and includes everything you need to run including power supply and a nice case. It's actually a re-purposed Android TV box design, and they even provide instructions to hack your own together from a TV box, but at this price I don't know why anyone would bother. It has fewer USB ports than a Pi and only b/g/n Wifi built in, but they offer a $10 upgrade option (which I got) that adds a USB hub and a 802.11ac Wifi dongle.

I got one to test with and have been impressed, so will be grabbing some more to free up the Pi4's that run my PiHole and HA servers.

Veteran68:

--- Quote from: MK14 on December 07, 2022, 08:51:26 pm ---Also, I think we have got to, or are rapidly getting to the point.  That these (higher end) SBCs, should at least have either a M.2 slot and/or eMMC (memory or slot), having a microSD card slot as well, is fine.

M.2's have got to the price/capacity/speed/size points, making them somewhat desirable, and microSD cards tend to be unreliable, if used as the ONLY boot medium.

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You can buy Pi cases with M.2 slots built in. I have this one and it works quite well. I'm a fan of the Argon series and had a non-M.2 version before this one.

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