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DaGeek247 , to Selfhosted in Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi
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Is it $60 or less? Everytime one of these alternative boards with an assload of more features pops up, nobody bothers to mention the price. Obviously we could spend more money to get more features, that's what spending more money does. You can't replace something without actually offering an alternative. The pi's biggest selling point was that it was cheaper than a steak dinner. If you dont match or beat that, you aren't actually competing with the pi.

AbidanYre ,

It looks like it's ~$100. But when I've used similar SBCs in the past the issue ends up being drivers. Even if something is faster and better specced than a RasPi, you end up outside that ecosystem with very little in the way of support for whatever oddball hardware your board has.

BreakDecks ,

There's an AliExpress link in the article that clearly prices it at $260...

AbidanYre ,

Cool? I'm seeing $165, but my original comment was based on the article as it existed five months ago. I'm not sure the board was even shipping at that time

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