Pepperridge farm remembers when a Raspi was $25.
Comment on Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoProbably because $250 is wildy misleading. This is an all inclusive kit which includes case, heat sinks, fan, micro-hdmi cables, power supply and you have to go for the 16gb rpi 5 to reach $230. All the things I want to do with a Pi I would really only need 4gb of RAM max, which the kit is $140.
The 16gb rpi 5 on its own with no extras is $145 and the 4gb on its own with no extras is $70.
Sure that’s still a lot more than the original goal of $35 computing but you can still get a basic kit for the rpi Zero 2 W for $40
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Fuck. 25 to 50 for a pi is like the most that should be.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
They’re out of stock at both Canakit and Vilros, but an original Pi Zero is still just $10 for the board.
Sure, that’s well beyond the inflation rate, but remember these are licensed resellers of official Pi products, so they have to mark them up at least a little to make a profit, especially now with tariffs affecting the imports.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I’ve kinda come to expect in the last three decades I’ve been following this stuff that hardware has the tendency to both get better and cheaper as time goes on.
Like, RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either if you think selling an 8GB stick of DDR4 for $160 today fine, as that is also 10 year old hardware at double the launch price.So it’s not that I expect being able to buy an old Raspi model for $25 or $5, I expect to be able to the buy a newer without having to pay up to six times as much.
ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either
Uh… You’ve missed some news. www.dimmprice.com
You uh missed some news www.npr.org/2025/12/…/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?
I mean, yes. It sucks for sure, and is absolutely wrecking the consumer market… But it’s not like we can magically change it.
All I can do is hope these AI companies fail as hard as they seem to be set up to fail.
bluGill@fedia.io 4 days ago
The price of a mini pc includes the price of the case, power supply, heat sinks, fans and such. The hdmi is the only thing suspect but if the case doesn't expose the hdmi port that will be in the minipc as well. when you compare just the board of a pi to a full pc that is unfair.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I didn’t compare the board to the full price of a mini PC, I was giving the information for context.
Further the raw power of a Pi 5 with 16gb of RAM is genuinely equivalent to a lot of thin client desktops with a lot more extensibility. I think you’re getting what you pay for, honestly.
I’m not going to say they shouldn’t be a little cheaper, but the Pi 5 is kind of a powerhouse compared to older Pis and you have to push for the 16gb of RAM version to make it actually expensive.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
4 GB is not enough for web browsing
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Funny enough I recently bought an N100 Mini-PC with 8GB (as a Christmas present to replace somebody’s aged Windows 8 PC) for just a bit over $140 (more precisely €123, so $143 at today’s exchange rate).
According to this the performance of the microprocessor on the Pi5 is at the same level as that of the N100.
So basically if you buy a Mini PC with an N100 and 8GB memory you can roughly get the performance of the Pi5 at the price of a Pi4 with 4GB.
lauha@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sure that’s still a lot more than the original goal of $35 computing but you can still get a basic kit for the rpi Zero 2 W for $40.
35 dollars in 2012 is 49 dollars now whenntaking inflation into account. You can get Pi 5 1GB model for 45 usd.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Ok, well $145 for a rpi 5 is wild.