I frequently don't even install a GUI on most of my Pi projects, and barely use the capability that the hardware offers for my embedded applications. Why would I want to pay more money for capability and capacity that I will not use? That is stupid, and wasteful, and inefficent, and against my personal engineering philosophy.
So, the use-case is being tight wadded, skinflinted miserly old bastard who would prefer to put his extra cash toward yet another dumb old guitar, than DRAM that will be DEADBEEF for it's entire life?
Currently I am waiting on Adafruit to deliver a 2gb Pi 5 to run Klipper and Octoprint for my 3D printer. Explain to me why paying more of my money for 8gb would have been a smarter choice, given the difference in price accounted for about 20% of the cost of my most recent neato pawnshop guitar find, and the hardware more than exceeds the minimum capability for my needs? Please enlighten me.
Why do you need the horsepower of a Pi 5 to run Octoprint? There probably won't be a notable slicing speed difference compared to a Pi 4 and that was reasonably fast already.
I don’t really, but the significant reduction in boot time and longer expected useful service life was worth the small cost increase. I’m actually getting something for my money that will benefit me every time I reboot.
So, the use-case is being tight wadded, skinflinted miserly old bastard who would prefer to put his extra cash toward yet another dumb old guitar, than DRAM that will be DEADBEEF for it's entire life?
Currently I am waiting on Adafruit to deliver a 2gb Pi 5 to run Klipper and Octoprint for my 3D printer. Explain to me why paying more of my money for 8gb would have been a smarter choice, given the difference in price accounted for about 20% of the cost of my most recent neato pawnshop guitar find, and the hardware more than exceeds the minimum capability for my needs? Please enlighten me.