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Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February
(www.tomshardware.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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That's nice. Let me know when they're $30 again.
Yea. I miss those days.
I wouldn't expect that kind of price anymore except for the Zero models.
I don't expect it either, which is why these things don't make sense anymore, and why I actually recently passed them up for an X86 competitor. Prices of RPi's have inflated, supply has gone down to nothing, and all the while all sorts of competition has entered the SBC scene that provides a much better value.
Don't get me wrong, I love the RPi and I feel like a real cool nerd with bare PCBs sitting around my house, but they're just too expensive now.
Yep. The initial idea was to have a cheap SBC, that you could give to an entire classroom without being worried too much if some of them break. 35€ are not exactly cheap, but doable. 80-90€ is simply not viable for that purpose anymore.
At the same time, for more serious projects, it's lacking too many features like sata, pcie, etc., etc.
I feel like RPi is coasting on momentum, without a clear direction.
I'd rather have x86 tbh. Thanks for letting me know these exist.
A refurbished thin client from eBay. Or a refubed sff/usff.
They are pretty much the same price these days, and come with a case/PSU.
If you don't need the GPIO and special connectors that a raspberry pi has, sff/usff is going to be cheaper, has upgradeable ram&sata and some have pcie3.0 slot.
Running pihole (let's be honest, a huge reason people buy a pi)? Get a usff/sff, slap an SSD (probably the cost of a raspberry pi case/PSU/SD-card) in there and an intel i340-t4 4port NIC (this is extra. Can just use the onboard NIC), and install proxmox. Then run pihole in a VM. And now you have spare capacity to run a whole bunch of other fun things, with the safety net of snapshots and backups so if you mess up a config you can just roll another VM.
I was in the market for something low budget with two nics for a local firewall. Since this gave me a nice discount on top, I ordered a zimaboard now as it's pretty much exactly what I need. Thanks for the tip
Biggest benefit of those things is that they come with SATA ports so you can use them to build a <$100 2-bay NAS which is about half the price of popular competitors but with way more power.
Oh cool! I didn't know about this. Thanks for sharing.
The pi 4 is literally $35 right now. The original pi, adjusted for inflation, was $47.
The cheapest rpi that isn't a zero or pico started at $35. You can buy a Pi 4 Model B 1GB for $35 on pishop.us right now.
The pi 5 won't ever be $35 because that's not the price point it was designed to hit. That's why they have a range of products, so you can buy the one that fits your budget.
Can't do much with 1GB. And the Pi4 isn't part of a "product range", it's the previous generation product.
Of course the pi 4 is still part of the product range. It's still being actively manufactured and sold. Same for the pi3.
As far as memory size, that wasn't part of your original complaint. You want a $35 computer, that's how much you get. The original pi was $35 and had 256mb of ram.
-edit also, $35 in 2012 is $47 today with inflation. The pi 4 is a crazy good deal and readily available. This complaint just has no merit.
Its a 5-year old product. With 5 year old specs.
Yes I also didn't specify a clock speed, storage size, network speed, etc. What I meant was a modern version of an old product with similarly modern specs.
And yet the Pi5 starts at $60.
You're also missing the other half of this conversation where other SBCs have come way down in price.
Le Potato, Orange Pi, Zima products, Rockchip, not to mention all the X86 mini PCs, old office PCs, etc.
It's a Pi. Cutting edge (or even modern or high end) specs have never been it's selling point or goal.
This is just goal moving at this point. And stating just plain incorrect facts. I'm out.
I'm not moving the goal posts, you just ignored one of them.
I didn't ignore anything. You edited your reply to make it look like I did.
I replied at 7:31GMT. You replied to that at 7:34GMT. You edited your original post at 7:44GMT for some reason.
This isn't reddit where you can't see when or if someone edited their comment.
Yeah no shit. I didn't remove anything. Just added it. The part you ignored is still there.
Go ahead and honor your promise to be "out".