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$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU

Despite changes, 2GB Pi 5 is "functionally identical" to other iterations.

We're many months past the worst of the Raspberry Pi shortages, and the board is finally widely available at its suggested retail price at most sites without wait times or quantity limitations. And this, combined with the savings from halving the memory capacity, has allowed us to take $10 out of the cost of the finished product." Retro emulation boxes aren't necessarily RAM-hungry but can benefit from the Pi 5's extra CPU and GPU speed, and many types of lightweight server apps (Wireguard, Homebridge, Pi-hole, to name a few) can benefit from the faster Wi-Fi and Ethernet and improved support for more reliable NVMe storage.

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