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by manyxcxi 3764 days ago
It's only much cheaper if you get it without any of the adapters. I Kickstarted it and paid $24 for one w/ an HDMI adapter and $19 for one w/ a VGA. That being said, now that I have both adapters, any proceeding purchases go back to being much cheaper if I don't need the display adapters full time.

The thing that really got me was their aim of being entirely open source. I like the Pi, but there's a lot of stuff closed off.
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Nexxxeh 3764 days ago
It's also cheap to go from HDMI to VGA now, a "Ugreen" HDMI to VGA converter (with 3.5mm audio out) is about $8.50.

I think the popularity of the Pi has helped there.

(The adapters are great, but depending on what you're plugging in, you may need to supply power as well. A microUSB cable is included in the box. If what you want to display has HDCP, that needs to be removed before the adapter.)

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