Mastodawn

Yesterday's news about the Pi 5 16GB being $299.99 was *not* an April Fool's joke (sadly)—DRAM pricing is killing the hobby SBC market, and it's not just Raspberry Pi that's affected.

I wrote more on my blog, here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/

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Dave Mc

@geerlingguy an N100 mini PC with 16GB RAM costs less, is a fair bit quicker... and includes a case and SSD. Unless you really need GPIO, these high end Pis are effectively dead.