Mayayana  wrote:
> "Chris Green"  wrote
>
> | Cheap to run as well as to buy initially, a Pi consumes a lot less
> | electricity than even a modern 'desktop' machine.  However as the Pi
> | gets bigger and PCs get smaller and more economicial the difference is
> | diminishing.  Unless you need the processing power of a Pi 4 then some
> | of the lesser versions maybe somewhat cheaper in the long term.
> |
>
>    My impression is that Pi4 made a big jump in functionality.
> Loading the latest Firefox, streaming movies or videos to
> a TV... unless you've done that easily with a Pi3 it might be
> best not to recommend it. Electricity usage is hardly a top
> concern when there might be issues with CPU power, RAM,
> etc.
>
Absolutely, but for some things a 3 or 2 is perfectly adequate, for a
home LAN  DHCP/DNS server my 2B is *more* than adequate.

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Chris Green
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