Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
notice the comment in the vid re m.2 socket.
It's not an M.2 slot, it's a proprietary slot. Thankfully it at least offers the possibility of third party upgrades and replacement, which will hopefully come to the M4 Pro soon. I worry about that on my own M1 machine - since the SSD is soldered to the main logic board, once the SSD wears out and fails the computer will become garbage.

Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
The Pi hasn't reached that yet, but the Pi5 is £48 for 2.4GHz with 2GB of RAM. £76 with 8GB.
They're offering a 16gb version now, currently about $170 at some Canadian shops.

Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
Of course it's also only 4-core (64 bit), so a very long way from Apple's chips, but surprisingly good.
If benchmarks are to be believed, the Pi 5 is roughly as powerful as a 2014 Mac Mini - not bad. My Pi 3B+ is apparently less powerful than a 2007 model...

Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
It's not so long since PCs were way less powerful. Actually, I thing three of my older PCs are!
I know a few of my PCs are - I still have a 450mhz Pentium III kicking around!

Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
my concern is if Apple offer only higher priced products that the rug might get pulled out from under them.
Well it's been working for them for 20 years or so...

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