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Jeff GeerlingIt's an odd day for Raspberry Pi—literally! A new 3 GB RAM model of Pi 4 is out... and price increases almost across the board 😭 https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/
mausmalone@geerlingguy man they have to stop doing these announcements on April 1.
carbide@geerlingguy does this mean the 4GB model I got for a stalled project is an appreciating asset?
@carbide apparently
Shannon Quinn 
@geerlingguy literal 50% price hike on the top end Pi 5s? Holy GEEZ
Anthony@magsol @geerlingguy It's already been at $200+. Is this in addition to that?
Edit: Yes it is.
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is available now for $305.
W.T.F.
@adx @geerlingguy Yeah I went to the Microcenter page just to check, and indeed it’s true: they jumped from $195-205 (it’s been oscillating because I’ve actually had my eye on it for a planned upgrade) to $299 *literally overnight*.
@adx @geerlingguy I don’t know why, but Adafruit still lists the 16GB model as $219 (they’ve had it listed at that price for awhile—again, I’ve been checking 🫠), so where this was bizarre that it was $20 pricier than elsewhere, now it’s $80 *cheaper* than most others.
At least for now.
tehuro@geerlingguy gonna grab myself some copium and say it's April 1st joke...
4 or 8GB pi was planned for near future, now it's moved to after (if) the prices drop
4 or 8GB pi was planned for near future, now it's moved to after (if) the prices drop
Simon ZerafaMakes you wonder if they'll think of using half bad / faulty RAM chips, like the Sinclair Spectrum did in the 1980's 😉
Thomas@geerlingguy eeeeeh a Pi 3 3GB for the price of what was a Pi 5 8GB is crazy.
Roland \ Willard@geerlingguy well, shit. I was actually waiting to buy a Pi 5 until the prices went down.
I don't know about y'all, but I'd rather see people build cool ass projects than have access to the wrong answer machine.
@will me too
doragasu@geerlingguy A 16 GB Pi5 that was $120 a year ago, has more than doubled its price to $245. Terrible 😭
Guillaume Rossolini@geerlingguy this is starting to get really expensive, for a hobby
Long are gone the “let’s make this available for everyone” days
[edit] wait is this for real or just April 1st
@geerlingguy I know you’ve seen this video for I’m 2022, this is what I was remembering
we wanted it to be cost effective, we wanted it to be cheap
RPI1 was $35
Raspberry Pi was founded with a mission to put affordable computing in the hands of people all around the world
10 years of Raspberry Pi
Ro@geerlingguy I know this is an April Fools joke, but these boards have got so expensive for my use case. it would be cheaper to buy a used desktop in this day and age.
@ro_c @geerlingguy it isn't a joke. Upton had to specifically say it's real "despite the date" in the linked blog post.
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William@geerlingguy glad I have a so-called "problematic" number of Pi 4 & 5 boards. I also found some DDR4 kits laying around the other day. Feels like I hit the saddest jackpot ever!
eickot@geerlingguy 300€ for the pi5 with 16GB of ram, not bad! It's impossible lately to buy anything. (hope my rpi keeps working for a long time!)
MackajI wonder if interleaving memory access between two chips will have a noticeable effect on memory performance over the single chip model.