- cross-posted to:
- raspberry_pi@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- raspberry_pi@programming.dev
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/515125
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Bugger!
Recently asked raspi foundation if they could do a sku with less ram for order quantity 1000. Answer was no.
IIRC the lowest skus with wifi and mmc for the CM4 & CM5 are 4gb & 8gb respectively. We only need 1gb of ram.
We were going to the CM4 to save 10usd/unit, at the cost of dramatically lower emmc write speed (slow factory programming times). I’ll have to check how much worse the price gap is now :D
Very much wishing for a competitor with reliable wifi drivers, upstream support and sim prices (or lower). Can’t wait for universal distro images that work on any sbc too ( continues dreaming )
Unfortunately, Raspberry Pi dominates the ecosystem making it very difficult to try alternatives.
This is not a scientific (or even “business research” level) approach, but looking at the statistics for the DietPi SBC distribution, we can see how much Raspberry Pi dominates:
