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Re: sBIT USB boot

 

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Dave, I'm sorry I appear to have upset you - in the context of this mail list, I asserted that it would require a significant effort to use a $100ish N100 system in a uBitx, and you agree with me, as best I understand your responses.

I never advocated the RPi was a better desktop device than the N100 boards we are generally discussing - I've been discussing embedded applications, like the *current* uBitx design.

As for the cost differential, I pushed back on the characterization of the linked-to board as "a bit pricier now" - it's 250% more expensive than the bare RPi 5 board with 8 gigs of RAM, that's not just "a bit pricier" in my opinion, but opinions vary.

And I will concede, adding items to an RPi to make it a convenient desktop system does raise the cost beyond the cost of the board alone - obviously - but I am not advocating to use the RPi as a desktop, on the other hand you *are* advocating to use an N100 in an embedded application like the uBitx.

If you really feel the need to respond, please, let's take this off-list - I doubt many here are interested in any further discussion on this matter.

Ken, N2VIP

On Feb 3, 2024, at 17:09, Dave, N1AI <n1ai@...> wrote:

I guess you just aren't following along, because I just wrote "It's a bit pricier now, but overall it seems quite possible that an Intel variant could take away a lot of Pi's lunch money sooner or later", and earlier in this thread (?here ) I wrote "Jeff is right that the Pi world requires you to select, purchase and assemble more 'stuff' to get a useful setup whereas most SFF PCs come with all the stuff you need right out of the box" and provided links to Jeff's video which shows if you price out all the stuff you need to buy to use a Pi 5 in a desktop configuration then you spend a lot more than the $85 or so that a raw Pi 5 8GB costs.? Want power?? More money!? Want a fan?? More money!? Want a case?? More money!? Want storage faster than a micro sd card?? More money!
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