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Raspberry Pi 5 16 GB Hits $385 Following Latest Price Hikes (www.techpowerup.com)
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16 GB model goes up by $80 to $385, more than triple the $120 it launched at in January 2025

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[–] 13 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

Just buy any old computer lol. Are they really selling enough to make this worth it?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

    I imagine the main customer are companies building shitty appliances that use a raspberry pi. I also have a 3D printer that is powered by a raspberry.

    For a home server used PCs should be an easy choice. I guess a lot of people might still fall for a raspberry pi at least once.

    For networked electronics there are so many better choices nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 minutes ago*

    For networked electronics there are so many better choices nowadays.

    Old digital signage PCs. If you can find one with a PCIe slot, you can even put 10G network cards in it. I got a fanless one that was an i5 with ~8GB of ram and 500GB of storage for like $200 (I think it was actually $80 at the time, but it would probably be $200 now with 8GB of RAM).

    Also had 4 built in nics and like 4 HDMI ports for controlling the displays.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    my first home server was a rasp pi 4b 8GB which ran me abour 120 quid after getting all the accessories for it. I didnt buy a 5 back when they launched mainly because it was slower for media transcoding (it doesnt have a hardware transcoder at all!) which was all I would see when I researched it for homelabbing

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Even 10 year old second-hand PCs are going for ~$200-$300 now it's insane. Tried to bid on a few during the Radio Free Asia HQ liquidation auction and I was baffled by how much people were bidding on crap that would be worth $40 a few years ago.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago*

    Liquidation bidders are a bit unhinged sometimes (especially if you factor in that it's usually more annoying to get you shit than on eBay). But yeah I also noticed that used hardware has gotten more expensive.

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