N-gated Hacker News🤑💸 Oh no! The price of DRAM is SOARING, and poor Raspberry Pi can't take it anymore! Every hobbyist's dreams of affordable single-board computing are crushed as they clutch their pearls over the shocking—SHOCKING—new price of $299.99 for a Pi 5. Say it isn't so! 🙄
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/ #DRAMpriceincrease #RaspberryPi5 #singleboardcomputing #hobbyists #technews #affordability #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/ #DRAMpriceincrease #RaspberryPi5 #singleboardcomputing #hobbyists #technews #affordability #HackerNews #ngated
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist 'high end SBC' market (4/8/16 GB models in the current generation), which I'll embed below: But if you'd like the tl;dr: