Super confused by some of their decisions lately.
Spending money and effort on the SD cards was a real win.
Delving deeper into the smaller form factor and less powerful versions…don’t get it.
Now a portable monitor? Kinda confused.
Right now they are fighting against the ESP community, RockChip overtaking their dominance, and BPi being a better price point. I’d rather they just make more production runs with extra features or hats that aren’t…a monitor you can get from better manufacturers cheaper.
ASUS has a fantastic portable gaming monitor with 144hz at a similar price point. I’d buy that over this.
Im not 100% sure about the monitor especially since you have to get another power adapter for 15$, but the 500 looks neat.
Ohhh I wonder if this can work as a 4k 10bit uhd Plex/jellyfin client?
I have a Pi400 that I used as a 4K UHD Kodi client. It worked great. The only thing it lacked was Doing Vision and HDR10+ support. Normal HDR10 was fine.
Now I just use the Jellyfin app for my TV (LG), which also support DV.
I just bought a used Ryzen 3 ThinkCentre as a media centre PC for 66€. Feel like the pi has a hard time competing both on price and performance in that field.
Can you post where that is from please? I seem to stumble on desktops that cost 10x as much!
Sure, it’s from Germany, though. Shipping might be a problem, depending on your location.
https://www.ebay.de/itm/387458883458
If you look for used or refurbished ThinkCentres, Optiplexes, and whatever-hp-calls-theirs, there’s usually some cheap ones, at least around here.
Too late, bought a mini pc instead and loaded Linux.
