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I'd love to buy a 500+

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus/

I can't justify it though as I've no use for it.

However I think it is way closer to their original vision than anything else, i.e. It is a lot like the 1980s computers, the magic they were trying to capture.

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I love the idea, but the price/power ratio is just a teeeny bit on the expensive side for me.

For 100€ that would be something I'd buy for every niece and nephew to play with. For 200€ it's not even for me, I'd rather buy something like the uConsole RPI-CM4: https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-rpi-cm...

Clockwork Pi experience with the CM4 is not good. 10 months to ship. Horrible Wifi performance, can't hold a link, and it only has around 50 minutes of battery life. I regret my purchase and it's sitting in my rack next to a bunch of old ham radios.

It’s still more up my alley than the pi 500

Sell it on ebay to one of those people that have to wait 10 months, instead of letting it rot on a shelf?

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