New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
I think that’s a fair price for a 16GB RAM Raspberry Pi 5
I wonder if this means the 16GB Pi 500 wedge computer will be $150?
There's been much debate about Raspberry Pi straying from its mission to provide affordable computers. I disagree.
Raspberry Pi offers models ranging from $10 to $120, all readily available — more so than ever.
Adjusted for inflation, the original $35 Raspberry Pi Model B (launched 2012) would be $50 today. The Raspberry Pi 5 2GB is also $50 today and vastly outperforms the original, delivering far greater bang for buck.
Though I can’t speak to their internal decisions, it’s seems from the outside that they continue to try to maximise the value of the Raspberry Pi while maintaining the original price point.
Disclaimer: Co-founder of Pimoroni, one of the first Raspberry Pi resellers.
I hope this is a one-off expensive Pi and not an indication of a new pricing strategy. It would be very disappointing if these hacker computers became expensive toys.
The article is very feel-good with the carbon credits and all, but the inflating pricing is a disservice to the hacker community. It shouldn’t be sort of greenwashed.
Finally. I was seriously looking at competitor's boards for more RAM. Now despite some of the competition being faster, the convenience and ecosystem factor is in favor of the RPi, and I'm in. Now, if I can actually get one...
Who needs 16GB ram on a PI! Like what are the actual use cases?
Wasn't the whole point of Raspberry Pi being cheap and accessible?
As a homelab guy, the only thing I wish is multi-gig ethernet. (2.5gbe)
16GB is fine, although I would prefer an rpi5 revision B with onboard nvme connector. I've always wondered why they didn't do it in the first place when there is enough room for a 2230 disk.
Who are these for? Raspberry Pi made sense as an educational and dirt cheap hobbyist platform when it sold for ~$30. At $120 + accessories it's just another expensive toy.
They should also sell the dusty drawer it’ll end up in.
I am surprised my local reseller seems to actually have stock. Usually whenever RPi says "now on sale" that means "check in half a year".
The price is still way off though, as always.
I can't remember, how exactly we got from $20 RPi to $120 RPi?
Is there pi5s with the arm cores which were hardware-fused-disabled, namely without the royalties paid to arm? (In other words, with a RISC-V firmware)
Now do one with ECC!
Orange Pi has more bang for the buck.
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro...
I would respond but HN is limiting how much I can post per day, only 4 posts.
Orange Pi 5 is the go to solution for IRL streaming right now as well as router. The openwrt project has created a special variant of the orange Pi, but the regular one is cheaper and has more features. Both are very well supported. Claiming it's an eventual paperweight is FUD and not true.
Bought a mini pc with N100 and 16GB of ram, SSD included, no need to buy an enclosure, everything setup and ready, just needed to install Linux from a USB stick with the normal procedure.
I might have chosen RPI5 if it had 16GB ram, but I went with x86 and I like it because there are no software issues anymore (redpanda was not working on rpi)