Comment on Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 month agoPepperridge farm remembers when a Raspi was $25.
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.
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.
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
I haven’t, that’s the point.
If a Raspi going from $25 to $145, an increase of 5.8x is fine, and a Zero from a decade back being twice the price today, then surely when you go from $10/GB of DDR4 to new shiny modern DDR5, that increase of 5.8x is all fine too.
And from looking at DIMMprice, it’s still “only” around $25/GB, that’s a pure bargain right?
Obviously neither of them are fine and both situations are utterly outrageous.
To be fair they weren’t saying they think it’s fine, they were implying that I do.
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.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Fuck. 25 to 50 for a pi is like the most that should be.