Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM (phoronix.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/1729200/raspberry-pi-4-3gb-launches-raspberry-pi-prices-go-up-again-due-to-ram
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-4-3GB
> Raspberry Pi prices are [2]going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also [3]announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options.
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> The 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 was announced at $83.75 USD for those not needing quite 4GB of RAM and looking to save some memory given the ongoing price increases. The Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 4GB models are seeing new $25 price increases, the 8GB models seeing $50 price increases, and the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is going up by $100. The Raspberry Pi 500+ is seeing a $150 price increase. The Raspberry Pi Compute Modules are also seeing increases from $11.25 to $100 USD.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-4-3GB
[3] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/
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I own 8 Pis of various kinds, and 7 of them are busy running 24/7 doing various useful things.
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> Another expensive way to collect dust, disused, on a shelf. Tongue in cheek of course. ;) I own maybe 4 PIs but only used two for actual projects.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of PIs, rendering petrified Natalie Portmans, pouring hot grits down pants.
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They are good for testing other devices. Unfortunately the volume sold will never be that high.
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I find [1]PiShop [pishop.ca] to be pretty good.
[1] https://www.pishop.ca/
Radxa (Score:1)
I'm starting to think that Raspberry Pi is coming up with their own fruit tax, like the old familiar 'apple tax'. There is a Radxa Cubie A7S, smaller than the pi 4, it sells for $30.00 with 6gb of ram, and from what I understand, outperforms the raspberry pi 4, and just comes up short of the performance of the raspberry pi 5. The only downside, my purchase of the 4gb model took 9 weeks to ship.
Or ... N100 or old Intel NUCs (Score:2)
Raspberry Pi's are the right fit in specific cases.
For example, you need to interface the GPIO pins to some devices.
But there are issues with it in other cases.
For example, the cost rises as you include accessories, such as a case, fan, various hats, and so on.
If you just need a low(er) power x86 platform to run a stock Linux distro, then plain mini PCs or older models of [1]Intel/ASUS NUCs [wikipedia.org] will fit the bill nicely.
You can get a 2018 NUC for ~ $100 or so.
They already come with M.2 slots, and some have SATA con
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing
April 1st publication (Score:2)
I can't trust anything published on April 1st and posted about in the following weeks
how? (Score:2)
How is it that 1/4 of a phone costs as much as 1/2 of a phone?
Thank AI (Score:2)
> How is it that 1/4 of a phone costs as much as 1/2 of a phone?
Because the phone was likely built from components source before the AI-RAM-apocalypse, and if it's from a major vendor, they have better protection...but rest-assured, their costs will go up as well. We're all fucked, component-wise. Thank the big AI players for buying every chip they can find...using revenue passed among themselves in a circular economy, somehow hoping that if they just buy more hardware, their LLM slop factories will produce something somewhat useful, like they promised...instead of th
Re: Thank AI (Score:2)
Ok but this is true in general. Raspi is just grossly overpriced even on a good day.
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If Pi had the sales volume of even a low-tier phone manufacturer, the price would be much lower. There just aren't enough hacker nerds out there.
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And at the same time ensure that everyone becomes more dependent on data centres, the cloud etc. So we don't own our own data, and so they can strip-mine it on the way into the cloud to "teach" their beloved word sausage machines.
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Because they're not going to build 100,000,000 Raspberry Pi 4s?