Re: Remote development with neovim, tmux and SSH from macOS?

John Levine:
> >again, my point is not to put down the RPi, which is a great piece of
> >hardware for what it is -- only to point out that, performance-wise, the
> >RPi and the Apple CPUs are really not comparable.
 
> Considering that the RPI costs about $50 and a Mac Mini is $600, I'd
> say the RPi is a a lot of computer for the price. It's 1/10 the cost
> for 1/4 the speed.
 
i agree; i think the RPi is great, i own 4 of them, and i'll probably
buy more in future, although i'm waiting to see what happens with RPi5
support on FreeBSD before i do that.

the only reason i posted was to correct the idea that the RPi4 and the
M1 Mac have similar CPU performance, when they really don't.

incidentally, my M1 Mac Mini cost a lot more than $600, but that's
because it was a CTO with 16GB RAM and 10GE Ethernet... neither of which
are available on the RPi[0].  so if anything, my point is buy whatever
hardware is most appropriate for your use case, but be aware of what
that hardware actually *is* before you buy it :-) 

[0] in fact the RPi's genet(4) doesn't even support 9K jumbo frames,
even though, given the weak CPU performance, this would actually be
quite useful.