No they aren't. Most raspberry pi computers are considerably less than
100 bucks.
You can order a pi4 with 1GB of ram for just $35 from digikey, and a pi4
with 8GB of ram for $75 from adafruit. Obviously the ones with 2GB and
4GB are going to priced in between these two extremes. The over 100
dollar price tags you're seeing are for kits that contain considerably
more than just the pie itself.
I.E. you can order a kit from amazon for $172 that contains a raspberry
pi 4 8GB version that comes with the pie, a 128GB SD card, Aluminum
case, heat sync, Power supply, 2 HDMI adapter cables and an on/off switch.
If you're after the latest and greatest, you can pick up a raspberry pie
5 8GB version for $80 for just the pie, or $160 if you want a whole pile
of things with it, it contains:
a 128GB SD card, A case, A cooling fan, A heat sync, 45W power supply
and 2 HDMI cables.
So, depending on what you're after, a raspberry pie can be had for
considerably less than $100.
On 10/18/2024 9:20 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
How do you use a keyboard with it?
You cannot. The Pi Pico is not a full computer
for desktop use. As said, the smallest Pi which
can be used as a full computer is the Pi Zero:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/
It has USB, Wifi, Bluetooth and HDMI, but only 0.5 GB RAM
and only one microSD card slot to use instead of a harddisk.
It costs 3 times as much as the Pico, but still very little.
Note that the Pi Zero has no audio output connector, but you
can probably use Bluetooth or HDMI to connect audio things.
Larger models of the Raspberry Pi series have more features,
more RAM, faster CPU, some have 2 HDMI outputs, gigabit LAN,
multiple USB 2 and 3 ports etc. and are more like 100 USD.
Eric
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