You assume people need to buy a new RPi. But many people reading such an article already have one or two at home, just searching for more use cases for their (often unused) toys.
The two other Raspberry Pi that I have are Model 3B+. On one of these I run Raspbian. On the other one I run FreeBSD.
I would like to buy a few more Rapsberry Pi, but they are not so easy to come by.
I would especially like to buy the following:
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4)
If anyone has one or more RPi 4 or RPi CM4 that they are not using, I would be interested to buy them so that I can put them to use. I have an address in Norway, and an address in Spain. So if anyone in any countries nearby (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, etc) have some RPi 4 or RPi CM4 that they are not using and willing to part with for a reasonable price, please let me know :)
To me, the very point of RPi is to be cheap, slow, and hacking-friendly, with all these GPIO pins to control peripherals like a 3D printer, or a toy car / robot platform, etc. It was intended and initially promoted as an educational toy for schoolchildren, I remember it well. It fits fits to that purpose, and has nothing to do with higher-performance compute.
[1]: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2l-with-2gbyte-ram/
[2]: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2l-with-2gbyte-ram/
[3]: http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro...
I have an Odroid XU-3 as well, and intend to buy some more Odroids also. But this thread is specifically about RPi and I still want more RPis because they have a much much bigger community than anything else :)