Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC

Discussion (120 points, 17 hours ago, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038

So they’re basically doing what that laptop from years ago was trying to do? The one with the hand crank? Pretty wild value here.

> One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC

Funny definition of a "general-purpose desktop PC". Does it has BIOS or UEFI ? Plus the "PC" is usually x86(-64).

A mac is also a PC.

And they still have soldered RAM and no option to add an SSD... who is this for?

that chugs while playing youtube in firefox

its nice and all but ... its just not fast enough

This was a problem with pi4, is it seriously still an issue with pi5?

Landfill