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Is it time to end our love affair with R-PI?

KennyMillar

It has been almost impossible to buy R-PI for so long now.

The foundation say they are still manufacturing 400,000 a month - but where are they going? 
Certainly not to many retailers.

Is it time to find alternatives, and walk away from R-PI?

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  • There are already a number of alternatives out there: Libre Computer, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, BeagleBone Black, and more.

    Some are more powerful. Some offer additional features (and form factors). All run some form of Linux. And most of them are available today.

    If your focus is the GPIO then boards like the BeagleBone are already a better option. And if your focus is a low-cost computing platform, then you can add in the NUC and a ton of other items.

    Will the mass market move to one of these? Probably not. With so many options there will just be fragmentation moving forward.

    The apparent shift of focus for Raspberry Pi Trading, LTD to industrial/commercial customers does imply it is time for the non-commercial market to consider alternatives.

    However, I doubt any will become as ubiquitous as the Pi had been.

  • in reply to baldengineer

    I've recently come across the Radxa Rock4 (or Rock Pi 4) and the Radxa Rock5 (or Rock Pi 5) SBC's.

    They have impressive specs and are very competitively priced.

    They are available too. E.g. https://www.okdo.com/c/rock-shop/rock-sbc/

    Here is a comparison of their latest compute module against the Raspberry Pi CM4: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/CM

    I've seen a few videos on YouTube recently showcasing the Rock5 board. It looks very promising.

    Some might know the saying Grin "As bread is to butter... like...". Well, I'm now wondering whether the Rock is to SBC like ESP32 is to MCU...

    The only drawback so far is that the Radxa official distro's still use kernel 4.4, but then you can switch to Armbian, which officially supports some of the RockPi boards and uses a version 5 kernel.

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  • in reply to baldengineer

    I've recently come across the Radxa Rock4 (or Rock Pi 4) and the Radxa Rock5 (or Rock Pi 5) SBC's.

    They have impressive specs and are very competitively priced.

    They are available too. E.g. https://www.okdo.com/c/rock-shop/rock-sbc/

    Here is a comparison of their latest compute module against the Raspberry Pi CM4: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/CM

    I've seen a few videos on YouTube recently showcasing the Rock5 board. It looks very promising.

    Some might know the saying Grin "As bread is to butter... like...". Well, I'm now wondering whether the Rock is to SBC like ESP32 is to MCU...

    The only drawback so far is that the Radxa official distro's still use kernel 4.4, but then you can switch to Armbian, which officially supports some of the RockPi boards and uses a version 5 kernel.

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