It's an odd day for Raspberry Pi—literally!
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It's an odd day for Raspberry Pi—literally! A new 3 GB RAM model of Pi 4 is out... and price increases almost across the board
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/@geerlingguy A 16 GB Pi5 that was $120 a year ago, has more than doubled its price to $245. Terrible
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It's an odd day for Raspberry Pi—literally! A new 3 GB RAM model of Pi 4 is out... and price increases almost across the board
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/@geerlingguy this is starting to get really expensive, for a hobby
Long are gone the “let’s make this available for everyone” days
[edit] wait is this for real or just April 1st
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@geerlingguy literal 50% price hike on the top end Pi 5s? Holy GEEZ
@magsol @geerlingguy It's already been at $200+. Is this in addition to that?
Edit: Yes it is.
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is available now for $305.
W.T.F.
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@magsol @geerlingguy It's already been at $200+. Is this in addition to that?
Edit: Yes it is.
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is available now for $305.
W.T.F.
@adx @geerlingguy Yeah I went to the Microcenter page just to check, and indeed it’s true: they jumped from $195-205 (it’s been oscillating because I’ve actually had my eye on it for a planned upgrade) to $299 *literally overnight*.
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It's an odd day for Raspberry Pi—literally! A new 3 GB RAM model of Pi 4 is out... and price increases almost across the board
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/@geerlingguy I know this is an April Fools joke, but these boards have got so expensive for my use case. it would be cheaper to buy a used desktop in this day and age.
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It's an odd day for Raspberry Pi—literally! A new 3 GB RAM model of Pi 4 is out... and price increases almost across the board
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/@geerlingguy glad I have a so-called "problematic" number of Pi 4 & 5 boards. I also found some DDR4 kits laying around the other day. Feels like I hit the saddest jackpot ever!
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@geerlingguy I know this is an April Fools joke, but these boards have got so expensive for my use case. it would be cheaper to buy a used desktop in this day and age.
@ro_c @geerlingguy it isn't a joke. Upton had to specifically say it's real "despite the date" in the linked blog post.
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@geerlingguy does this mean the 4GB model I got for a stalled project is an appreciating asset?
@carbide apparently
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@geerlingguy well, shit. I was actually waiting to buy a Pi 5 until the prices went down.
I don't know about y'all, but I'd rather see people build cool ass projects than have access to the wrong answer machine.
@will me too
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@ro_c @geerlingguy it isn't a joke. Upton had to specifically say it's real "despite the date" in the linked blog post.
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@magsol @geerlingguy It's already been at $200+. Is this in addition to that?
Edit: Yes it is.
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is available now for $305.
W.T.F.
@adx @geerlingguy I don’t know why, but Adafruit still lists the 16GB model as $219 (they’ve had it listed at that price for awhile—again, I’ve been checking 🫠), so where this was bizarre that it was $20 pricier than elsewhere, now it’s $80 *cheaper* than most others.
At least for now.
Raspberry Pi 5 - 16 GB RAM
The Raspberry Pi 5 is the newest Raspberry Pi computer, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 5 better than the 4? How ...
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@geerlingguy this is starting to get really expensive, for a hobby
Long are gone the “let’s make this available for everyone” days
[edit] wait is this for real or just April 1st
@geerlingguy I know you’ve seen this video
we wanted it to be cost effective, we wanted it to be cheap
RPI1 was $35
Raspberry Pi was founded with a mission to put affordable computing in the hands of people all around the world
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