Daddy Is Replacing The Backup Computer

[Guy Fawkes]

Daddy is suffering reverse sticker stock!

 

He's replacing a:

 

2010 Mac Mini

64bit Intel Core Dual @2.66ghz with 16gb memory

 

With a:

 

2019 Raspberry Pi 4

64b quad-core @1.5ghz with 16gb memary

The mac mini was about $600, The Raspberry will be about $100. Twice the number of processor cores and

about a quarter the size in a cute transparent case:

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Starter Kit with Clear Case (4GB RAM)

[+ oldNbusted]

I believe Apple shipped a watch last year with more horsepower than that mini. Moore's Law has proven to be extremely durable...

[+ honcho]

Daddy is suffering reverse sticker stock!

 

He's replacing a:

 

2010 Mac Mini

64bit Intel Core Dual @2.66ghz with 16gb memory

t

 

With a:

 

2019 Raspberry Pi 4

64b quad-core @1.5ghz with 16gb memary

The mac mini was about $600, The Raspberry will be about $100. Twice the number of processor cores and

about a quarter the size in a cute transparent case:

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Starter Kit with Clear Case (4GB RAM)

 

 

I don't question the decision at all. However, I'd like to point out that although the aggregate computing potential of the pi 4, while being potentially greater (6 core-ghz, vs 5.3), a working mac mini of that vintage is likely to be equally fast for use case of being a backup. It would be hard to figure out how to make parallel the tasks associated with copying changed files from one computer to another over a network, and the main limitation on speed will be the network connection rather than computing anyway. Furthermore, the pi being RISC based, may get less computing done per-cycle than the intel chip.

 

(I say this without biasing having had a techincal job in one of the two university computer science departments most responsible for RISC computing).

 

And the last bit of curmudgeonliness, is (excusing the irony blindness), I'd have used the term "enjoying" or "reveling in" reverse-sticker shock

instead of "suffering".

 

But *BRAVO* in any case.