The 20 dollar minicomputer has now become the 200 dollar rgb keyboard. Still, I’ve tried and using a raspberry pi as a desktop computer but everything is so impractical. Maybe the pi 5 is better, but I do not believe it’ll ever replace normal desktop computers. Raspberry Pi’s started as a small board which you can even run Linux on, with low power consumption, so toucan run it day round for services like home assistant. In my opinion, it should stay that way.
The 20 dollar minicomputer has not become the 200 dollar rgb keyboard. You can still get a ~20 dollar Raspberry Pi minicomputer that runs Linux and has low power consumption: The Pi Zero 2. They expanded their range of products on the top, both performance and price wise, but boards on the other end of the range are still on offer.
By the inflation calculator that's dead on the money though: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1960?amount=1
> $1 in 1960 is worth $10.95 today
$20 * 10 = $200
I thought that computers were supposed to get cheaper over time?
The first Raspberry Pi was not released in 1960.
Huh I read minicomputer and assumed we were talking about the first home computers, which that was about their epoch. (TBF I don't think any were ever $20 so that's on me).
Although if you go from the Pi 1 in 2012 at $35 at launch, it would be about $50 today.
> I read minicomputer and assumed we were talking about the first home computers, which that was about their epoch.
The minicomputers of the 1960s were only "mini" compared to earlier mainframes; they were still far too large and expensive for home users to even consider. Home computers didn't really come about until the late 1970s.