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[–] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 years ago

Yay to be out of stock in approximately a minute ʘ‿ʘ

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The removal of h264 isn't going to go down well for people who use them for under TV boxes. Will be better off with the Pi4 or another device.

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you explain this a little bit? I have been looking to buy a Raspberry Pi for emulation on my TV.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Emulation is fine, h264 is often used to codec video, like movies from seven seas.

TL:DR it will have next to no effect on emulation

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Is software decoding not sufficient? My rPi2 could handle h264 through Kodi up to 1080p and I don't think there was hardware decoding then.

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[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
Pi 5 w/ 8GB - $80
Pi 5 Case - $10
Pi 5 Charger - $8*
UHS1 Micro SD - $5**

Total - $103

That’s pretty steep. I can get a Beelink with an N95, 8 GB of memory, and 256 GB of storage on Amazon, right now, for $127. Comes with intel quick sync, I can upgrade the RAM later if I want, and the SSD isn’t going to corrupt anytime I sneeze.

The Pi Pico and Pi Zero 2 W are still great but their high end Pis don’t make sense anymore. Form factor and/or that 6ish*** watt difference between the Beelink and Pi 5 have to be really important

* based off pi 4 charger
** based off Microcenter website
*** quick google search of both devices’ power consumption under load
[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then please, buy the Beelink thing so I can get a Pi 5 for projects. I already have chargers, plenty of SD cards, a 3D printer for an enclosure, and a box of 50 heat sinks of various sizes. And I'll be just fine with the base $60 model, so that's all I need to spend.

[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m more confused than anything.

I didn’t have a lot of money as a teenager. My family had 1 computer we all shared. I couldn’t tinker with it, what if I broke it? Cheap Pis were the gateway to my lifelong computer hobby. Because of that hobby, I was able to get a job where part of my role is full-stack web dev. I don’t know what I would be doing now if I didn’t have access to cheap Pis when I was younger.

Especially in this economy, those prices just make me sad :/

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Pi 4 is still for sale, and it's in stock now for a change

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Better USB speeds, faster CPU, modular architecture, audio jack is gone, uses more power, has more ribbon ports for camera and display

ribbon for pcie 2.0x1 also

[–] Xianshi@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Curious to see what it can emulate with the new specs. I have the steam deck now but the form factor or the pi was always nice.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I guess it can now emulate an audio jack.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well one of the biggest hurdles to performance on the old raspberry pies with single core performance. So due to the fact that it is a slightly newer node faster etc etc etc it should definitely be better

[–] grue@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Well, it apparently can't do decent 8- and 16-bit anymore, since they're ditching the composite video jack for hooking it up to a CRT TV. Now it's only good for newer games designed for LCDs.

[–] llii@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

You can still solder an video out to the Rpi 5, there's just no port. So it's still possible if you really want to.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whata wrong with running retro games on LCD? The only issue I can see is games that use a light gun.

[–] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You'll get at least one frame of added latency in the very best case when using original hardware on an LCD. Combine that with a TV that does its own processing and emulation and you'll have some noticeable input lag. And yes, I know most TVs have a game mode.

Interlacing when doing sprite multiplexing looks shittier on an LCD, too. Unless you do blending at the cost of an additional frame of latency.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I feel a little bit underwhelmed about Raspberry Pi 5 compared to the Orange Pi 4.

Would it have killed them to throw an nvme m.2 connector on the underside?

[–] Indicah@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So how much is this one going to cost? $80? This company's greed has gotten out of hand.

Remember when they said this during the chip shortage

“These changes in pricing are not here to stay. As global supply chain issues moderate, we’ll keep revisiting this issue, and we want to get pricing back to where it was as fast as we can,”

Bullshit.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did anybody here actually watch the video? Or did you just come to the comments to bitch?

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I agree that the price is steep but this is an odd hill to pull the vitriol out on

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am so excited for this new raspberry pi !

[–] mankeulv@lemmy.latrans.cloud 0 points 2 years ago

Aw yissss... About time!