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The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another ‘unavoidable’ RAM price hike (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 101 points 2 days ago* (16 children)

When it was introduced the Pi cost $15

It was a 700MHz single core board with 512mb of ram...and it was $35, not $15

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  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

    And if tech had been proceeding since then as it did for the previous 30 years, you'd expect a whole lot more power for your $15 $35 now.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    An ESP32-P4 is about the same ram, better IO options, but half the CPU of the original Pi for about $20 right now. So the tech has been progressing a little bit.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It's also been 14 years. "About the same ram...but half the CPU" for over half the price (original comment was wrong, it was $35, not $15) is not a flex. It's a stunning failure.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago* (4 children)

    It was also $35 at release, not $15

    You're roughly getting 150x the power for 10x the cost with the current price hike.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    But a powerful CPU was never the point of the raspi. It was intended to be a cheap computer for your own hobby projects, iot setup and to learn about hardware, sensors and programming. The price was low so it would not ruin you if you made a mistake and fried the hardware.

    This is no longer the case when it costs 3 digits.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You're roughly getting 150x the power for 10x the cost with the current price hike.

    Maybe in a vacuum, but in a world with millions or even billions of 'legacy' devices sitting around collecting dust that have equal or better compute power for less cost, these devices don't really make sense.

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