The Cross Heads

Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC

One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC, if not an especially fast one. For Pi-as-desktop enthusiasts, the company has a couple of new pre-holiday announcements. The biggest is the Raspberry Pi 500, […]

December 9, 2024 | Raspberry Pi, raspberry pi 5, raspberry pi 500, raspberry pi monitor, Tech | No comments

The Raspberry Pi 5 now works as a smaller, faster kind of Steam Link

The Steam Link was a little box ahead of its time. It streamed games from a PC to a TV, ran 1,500 0f them natively, offered a strange (if somewhat lovable) little controller, and essentially required a great network, Ethernet cables, and a good deal of fiddling. Valve quietly discontinued the Steam Link gear in […]

December 3, 2024 | Gaming, Raspberry Pi, single board computers, Steam, steam link | No comments

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