 Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S. who celebrate Thanksgiving to the users in the rest of the world. Happy Thursday unless you're in a place in the world where it's not Thursday or you're watching this at a future date. I hope you're having a good day. Anyway, so the Raspberry Pi people just announced they've created a new Raspberry Pi called the Raspberry Pi Zero and it's a $5 computer. Now I would say probably about six months ago there was a Kickstarter program for the chip computer which was the world's first $9 computer which I've pre-ordered two of and I'm looking forward to greatly. I should be getting it in the next four months or so. So I'm waiting patiently. Now I want to talk about a little bit and I want to hear what you guys have to think because there are some differences. So one's a $5 computer, one's a $9 computer. Of course you're going to go for the $5 computer. Well it depends. What are the specs? Well I think they're both 1 MHz processors and they both have a half a gig of RAM. But what else is different about them? What are the pros and cons? Now again this announcement about the Raspberry Pi Zero just came out today I believe I just heard about this morning and it has some great things but I think it also is lacking some things but it all depends on what your project is. Now I've said and I think the Raspberry Pi is a great great thing but my issues with the past one is that it didn't have Wi-Fi built in. It only had an Ethernet plug. And in today's world it's like how often, first of all you do need, I feel like you need an internet connection for pretty much anything you do with a computer nowadays. And Wi-Fi just seems essential especially for a small device that you're probably going to be moving around although again it depends on what you're using it for. So let's just talk real quick about the pros and cons of the two. So you know in my mind little computers like this are good for two main things. Media centers hook them to TV to play videos and music and then also controlling devices. I just finished the series on home automation and you know controlling your air conditioner unit, controlling lights, controlling your garage door, controlling the locks on your car. Now I didn't go over all that in my series. I have done pretty much all that stuff here at my house and it's fun and it's just fun to do. My issue with the previous Raspberry Pi's was the cost. Now $25 doesn't sound like a lot but at least when it first came out when I bought mine which I have four Raspberry Pi's it was $25 and then get one shipped to the U.S. was $10 for shipping plus you need an SD card, you need a power supply for it, and a case, and then a Wi-Fi dongle if you wanted Wi-Fi. And if you didn't already have all that stuff which a lot of stuff you may have like I already have two or three Wi-Fi USB dongles lying around. If you didn't have all that it really brings the cost of the computer up to like $50 to $75 which is still pretty cheap but not when you're just going to stick it on the wall to control your air conditioning unit even though you know if you were to buy a smart plug it's going to cost you like or a smart thermostat is going to cost you like $200 so it's still a good deal but in my mind it's still expensive. Basically I like to see projects under $20 for whatever it is I'm working on. So both these options are good for that for that when it comes to the price but I feel like one might be better for one thing and then the other. Now the Raspberry Pi Zero has HDMI out where the chip computer only has composite out RCA connection so it's more of a it isn't HD and it's going to older TVs. You can buy an HMID adapter which is $15 so if you're going to use this media center that might be worth it still bring it below the cost of the old Raspberry Pi but not the new Raspberry Pi but even if you're using the new Raspberry Pi the Raspberry Pi Zero as a media center at what point are you not going to want to stream video and how are you going to get you're going to unplug that or plug in a USB flash drive every time you want to watch a video most TVs do that nowadays anyway so you'll have to connect the Raspberry Pi Zero to the network and not only does it not have Wi-Fi I don't believe it has any type of network device built into it so you're going to have to buy something and even a really cheap USB Wi-Fi dongle like I said have a few of them even a cheap one's usually nine or ten dollars so now the cost of that computer has now gone up to $15 and again I don't even know what the shipping is on the Raspberry Pi Zero so I'm just going to take shipping out of the equation for for both products at this point so $15 well that's still cheaper than buying the $9 computer and then spending another $15 on a board to get HDMI if you want that HDMI again if you have an older TV you might want the composite out which is a good thing like for the last three years I've had a computer a TV at work that I've had a Raspberry Pi hooked up to and it was an older TV that I needed the RCA connections to but I just bought a new TV for there and now I have HDMI so with the newer computers the Raspberry Pi Zero would be better option even with buying the Wi-Fi adapter but like I said when I think of these little computers I mainly think about being able to throw them some place to control lights air conditioning units locks on cars and things of that nature and again I don't need HDMI out for that I most the time I use a Raspberry Pi when other than a media center for my TV I use it as a server I don't have it hooked to any type of monitor I SSH into it or use a webinar face to it in which case the chip the $9 computer already has four gigs built in of storage which the Raspberry Pi Zero still is using SD card which is nice because you can expand it where with the chip computer you'd have to expand using the single USB plug using up that USB plug unless you're going to get a USB hub which again is adding a price and power consumption now but their chip computer not only has four gigs built in which is plenty for doing most that I'm way more than enough to control a device as that I was talking about as far as home automation goes but it also has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in now to get four gigs of storage Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi Zero you're adding quite a bit to the price and it may not seem like a whole lot but when you have a $5 computer and now your peripherals are costing you three four five times as much as the computer itself it's kind of like so again these are my thoughts I think they're both great sounding products I haven't tried either of them yet I look forward to trying them both again I'm still waiting on my pre-order of the chip computer and who knows if it's going to be it might turn out to be complete crap hardware when you get it no one knows yet well a few people know I think they've shipped it out to some developers but as far as their demos online they're playing quake on it and if you can play quake you can do pretty much anything I would do with these mini computers so I want to hear what you have to say what your thoughts on again it's kind of early but comment below tell me what your project is and which one of the products you think is better for your project and why and if you're not working on a project what are your thoughts just in general comment below again Raspberry Pi's company has been around for a while they've been known to have pretty good hardware they've been reliable they put out a lot of good products we know they're good the chip computer sounds great but we don't know really if it's going to be good we're not yet but for me majority of my projects I think the chip computer would be better just because it has that wi-fi built in with four gigs of storage it's ready to go yeah I still need to USB power it but I have plenty of USB cables lying around and that's a minimal cost which you would have to spend on both of the products to to get up and running and so yeah comment below I can't wait to hear what you guys say again I'm not saying one's better than the other I'm saying that one might be better for certain projects so go ahead comment below I'll try to reply when I can to to many of the comments and I thank you for watching again oh I also forgot to mention if you have kept up to date kept up to date on what's going on today with the Raspberry Pi zero not only is it five dollars but Raspberry Pi people put out a magazine called Pi Mag I believe and you can buy it in many bookstores and the December issue actually comes with the Raspberry Pi zero as a free gift blows my mind not only that we live in a world where you can buy a full-blown computer pretty much for five dollars but you can get one free just for buying a magazine could you imagine going back in time five years ten years 20 years ago and saying yeah you buy this magazine you get a free computer I mean people will be like how much is that magazine you know so it's great again it's Thanksgiving here right now in the US tomorrow's Black Friday I'm avoiding all stores for today and tomorrow I'm sure these magazines are going to fly off the shelf at the places they sell them so I don't know if I'm going to get one but probably Saturday I'll probably try to go out to a bookstore and see if they have any available but again let me know what you think if you ended up going and buying one of these magazines and you have the Raspberry Pi zero let me know how it works for you I'm sure it works great just like the other Raspberry Pi's but again thanks for watching comment below like this video share this video so we can see as get as many people's opinion as we can some more people who watch the video more people can comment and we can all get different views maybe different ideas maybe someone will comment something on a project you hadn't thought of yet that maybe you'd want to do or maybe I want to do and I'll do a video on in the future I'm really looking forward to getting both computers in the future and doing tutorials on it so again thanks for watching visit my website filmsbychrist.com that's Chris the K check out the link in the description and as always have a great day oh that's too sunny