I bought a 8GB Pi 5 CanaKit from BestBuy 8 months ago for $180 (plus tax). That same kit is now $320. 78% price increase.
A 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs 50% more than it did at launch - OMG! Ubuntu
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/raspberry-pi-2gb-costs-how-much-now
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SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bought a 8gb rpi 5 for 82€. Lucky me.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Same
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Damn it!
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I bought a 1GB Pi 5 to try out as a kodi box. It is not sufficient.
fonix232@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Well your mistake was going for 1GB.
That's barely enough for a basic headless server nowadays, let alone a full media suite.
Carrots@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
And I make $0/hour? How am I gonna afford it? kLaRnA, wheeerreee are you
brawndo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The most economical option for small computing is no longer a raspberry pi. It hasn’t been for a while. Now it is an mini PC. You can get x86 performance for the same price.
The raspberry pi still serves a purpose with it’s GPIO pins. If you need to make something physical then you may still find it useful. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
The gpio pins always made it a bit of a weird middle ground between a used NUC-type and an arduino and all the years since the pi1 have just shrunken the possible use cases for it as mini pcs have gotten cheaper and arduino-likes have gotten more powerful.
Imagine RISCV-berry pi tho that would be sex.
fonix232@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
There's a few RISC-V SBCs in Pi form factor already.
fonix232@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Not really though, given there's tons of cheap MCUs with the same or even more GPIOs available, and a USB/Wifi/Bluetooth connection away from doing the exact same thing as a Pi does. Could even whip up a linuxgpio driver that talks to your ESP32 fw and makes the same devfs gpiochipN endpoint available...
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Yeah :(
I wonder if other SBCS are similarly priced but cheaper