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The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another ‘unavoidable’ RAM price hike (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 101 points 1 week ago* (15 children)

When it was introduced the Pi cost $15

It was a 700MHz single core board with 512mb of ram...and it was $35, not $15

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

    And if tech had been proceeding since then as it did for the previous 30 years, you'd expect a whole lot more power for your $15 $35 now.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    An ESP32-P4 is about the same ram, better IO options, but half the CPU of the original Pi for about $20 right now. So the tech has been progressing a little bit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It's also been 14 years. "About the same ram...but half the CPU" for over half the price (original comment was wrong, it was $35, not $15) is not a flex. It's a stunning failure.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    It was also $35 at release, not $15

    You're roughly getting 150x the power for 10x the cost with the current price hike.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You're roughly getting 150x the power for 10x the cost with the current price hike.

    Maybe in a vacuum, but in a world with millions or even billions of 'legacy' devices sitting around collecting dust that have equal or better compute power for less cost, these devices don't really make sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Moore’s law ran for 40 years but hit a wall around 2010 due to physics.

    “Free” upgrades ended long before AI bros started buying up all the RAM and GPUs.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    It slowed around 2010 while Intel sat on its arse for quite a few years, but then transistors started shrinking again. This page has a chart suggesting the law has pretty much continued to hold. But we know that can't continue because things really are starting to hit physical limits now.

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