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Raspberry Pi just launched a new 16 GB Pi 5. Who's it for? Is it worth $120? Video here: youtube.com/watch?v=apWi16EROK…
in reply to Jeff Geerling

It's for me, I feel personally being taken care of my hopes and wishes 😁 This is amazing, definitly be getting one, or two 😁, of these.
Running a lot of VMs on my Pi(s) and if VMs need one thing (besides passed in GPUs, not tried that on a PI, though, yet), it's RAM.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

feels pointless the 8gb model is already too power hungry and too slow to be super useful
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑

@ErikUden My first PC had blasting fast 90Mhz, RAM was already measured in MB and at some later stage I upgraded the Harddrive to 40GB. And I was late to the party. That's how old I am. I think Jeff and I share approx. the same age.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

@Jeff Geerling Does it still use the stupid power supply? I wish they’d stop “innovating” how to get electricity into the damn things and just be normal.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

if only there was a 16GB Pi 500 with on board M.2. I would throw my money at the Pi Foundation!
in reply to Luke Trevorrow

@Luke Trevorrow You’d still have to travel to a lost valley in Tibet to find the one store that sold compatible power supplies and it would only be open on Tuesdays in November.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

Thanks for the video. For the steam CPU usage, doesn't it use bittorrent to download? That might cause extra cpu usage from the extra download streams.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

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in reply to Jeff Geerling

Thank you for the great deep-dive as always! I just received my cm5 8gb to upgrade my axzez… maybe my zfs will actually be performant then! However, this tells me that once the 16gb cm5 comes out that the 8gb will be bound for the HomeAssistant Yellow sitting on my shelf.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

- CM50016XX maybe. That delicate FPC connector is such an achilles' heel.... or maybe I'm just ham-fisted.
in reply to Jeff Geerling

Can you elaborate how you get the polynomial equation?

To me it looks more like a linear function with $10 for an additional 2GB:
Price = $40 + RAM * $10/2GB