C.H.I.P. vs Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better? (makezine.com)

Make Magazine weighs in on an issue that's suddenly relevant in a world where less than $10 can buy a new, (nominally) complete computer. Which one makes most sense? Both the $9 C.H.I.P and the newest, stripped-down Raspberry Pi model have pluses and minuses, but to make either one actually useful takes some additional hardware; at their low prices, it's not surprising that neither one comes with so much as a case. The two make different trade-offs, despite being just a few dollars apart in ticket price. C.H.I.P. comes with built-in storage that rPi lacks, for instance, but the newest Pi, like its forebears, has built in HDMI output. Make's upshot? The cost of owning either a C.H.I.P. or a Pi is a bit more money than the retail cost of the boards. Peripherals such as a power cable, keyboard, mouse, and monitor are necessary to accomplish any computer task on either of the devices. But it turns out the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero costs significantly more to operate than the Next Thing Co. C.H.I.P.

Comments

Oh, great. Millennials and their denial!

[Anonymous Coward]

I see this "Where does this bullshit keep coming from?" all the time from you Millennial/Hipster types.

It's like you're so self-centered that you can't at all comprehend the notion that others may be experiencing problems that you aren't.

Instead of doing the sensible thing and considering that, hey, maybe the problem actually does exist, you just deny, deny, deny and cry "Where does this bullshit keep coming from?"

You're the kind of person why denies that Firefox suffers from serious performance and memory usage problems, along with a totally unusable UI, even when there are many people complaining about these problems, and Firefox's share of the market has dropped to under 8%.

You're the kind of person who denies that systemd is full of serious architectural and implementation flaws, even when there are a huge number of bug reports, mailing list postings, forum comments, blog articles, and audible screams of pain from sysadmins about these problems.

You're the kind of person who denies that GNOME 3 is a pile of shit in every way, to the point of being less useful than even CDE was, although everyone who has used it utterly hates it.

Face it, the problem our friend drinkypoo describes is a real one. These devices aren't sub-$10 for a huge number of people. Maybe you aren't affected, but that doesn't mean that other people aren't! So when you come out whining about "Where does this bullshit keep coming from?", it just makes you look like a dipshit Millennial/Hipster dickface.