Top Raspberry Pi alternatives for 2020
What are the best Raspberry Pi alternatives to kick off projects in 2020? Here's my list.
What are the best Raspberry Pi alternatives to kick off projects in 2020? Here's my list.
Looking for a small, cheap Linux-powered computer to put at the heart of your project? Is "coin-sized" small enough? Is $4 cheap enough?
The idea that people would go out to buy a computer and bring it home is a relatively modern activity, and one that has, over the past few years, gained so much traction as to become commonplace. Back in the 1950s, buying white goods in the form of refrigerators and ovens was a social activity that drew out the whole family, now it is buying the new family computer.
This morning I read two fine articles here on ZDNet that looked at price. Jason Perlow touched on price in his "Der Frankenputer" piece, and Andrew Nusca took the subject of price head on in his piece "Culture of cheap: How discount computers cost the consumer". But what effect does price have on a consumer?
Charles Arthur writing on the Guardian Technology blog has done some digging into Psystar, the company offering Mac OS X without the Mac, and come up with some interesting information.