Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O

circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great news… for business customers, as they’re those are the only channels they’ll be available through.

  Could you elaborate, as I would imagine you’d be able to buy it from anywhere that wants to sell it, if not online?

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  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ever since the pandemic they’ve diverted 99% of all available inventory to business only sales channels. They blamed the chip shortage, but it’s been several years now ongoing.

    You can only find the lowest tier crap stock, old stock, or scalped stock, from retail sellers.

    This is very well documented and they’re websites setup to check stock across multiple resellers in the hopes of finding that 1% of retail allocation.

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  • jsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the problem. They’re always out of stock.

    www.adafruit.com/search?q=raspberry pi 4 www.sparkfun.com/categories/233

    You’d even be hard pressed to find one at a Micro Center or some other physical store.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just managed to get one like a month ago. After watching all the retailers I could find for like 2 years. Eventually I found a site that aggregated them to make it easier but it was Still like 3 months before I caught someone with stock in time to buy it. Figures the next one would come out right after all that…

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• bery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can find a raspberry pi 4 set for like 80-90€, but it’s on AliExpress…

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  • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You sure it’s not a knock off being sold as the real thing? Or maybe it doesn’t matter if the hardware is the same.

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    • bery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not sure, it’s AliExpress after all lol

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