I have a Pi500. It's a nice piece of kit. Keyboard is somewhat better than the one in the Pi400. Is it perfect or ideal? No. But it's pretty good. I class the idea of a user accessible NVMe connector as a "nice to have", not an essential, especially now that Pi5 grade machines can make full use of properly functioning A2 SD cards (which the Pi500 comes with).I thought we were looking for wheels and a sandwich.The fact a 500 does not have a jet engine makes it a no go for me.
I'm still waiting for the first "It doesn't run Windows/MacOS and that's a deal breaker for me" post. Or has that already come and gone?
(Full disclosure: I almost certainly will buy a 500 at some point. And a CM5 dev kit. Even though I'm not in the target market for either.)
No actual piece of hardware is going to tick all boxes for all possible users. One shouldn't make perfect the enemy of good enough. And the Pi500 is good enough....until there is a Pi600 (and even then, whatever a Pi500 can do now, it will still be able to do then).
I have an application that uses 7 Pi400s. Am I going to replace them with Pi500s? No. The Pi400s do what they need to do. If/when they fail, then I will replace them with the most current equivalent, which--considering how Pis stand up to normal use--will probably be at least Pi700s and might easily be Pi800s.
Statistics: Posted by W. H. Heydt — Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:42 am