$35 LAN Party...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:47:23PM -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> Just get yourself any reasonable netbook and you've got all that in a
> package you can flip open with far less hassle than plugging together
> a bunch of components.  Juggling a Pi with all that just isn't viable.
> 
> Granted, being able to go somewhere up north with a nice big flatscreen
> and a Model M keyboard and be able to fit everything else you need to
> do some coding in your back pocket could still be a Pi application.
> But if you're hauling a pile of stuff then a bigger computer works too.
> 
> The Pi shines mostly for being cheap and tiny and having GPIO pins.
> 
> Note also that the latest Intel thing about them getting out of the
> traditional desktop-board racket is not because desktops are dead, but
> rather that the ATX form factor is a huge waste of real estate: Intel can
> do all it wants to do for a high-end machine on a four-inch-square board
> nowadays.  And that's only about double the size of a Pi.

The memory and cpu sockets alone take more than that on a high end intel.
8 DDR3 slots and a 2011 pin cpu socket takes some space.  And of course
any high end machine would want at least one PCIe x16 slot for a video
card (since that is something intel certainly doesn't know how to do yet).

But certainly 7 expansion slots are hadly ever needed except by those
people that seem to think 3 or 4 video cards working together is required.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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