▲ 434 ▼ The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another ‘unavoidable’ RAM price hike (www.theverge.com) submitted 1 week ago by Itwasntme223@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world 110 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 71 points 1 week ago (8 children) $385 for a 16 GB Pi seems crazy. permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago (5 children) Cheapest 16GB DDR5 stick I could go buy from the local computer parts store here in Finland is currently 363€, or $406. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Eximius@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children) The rpi does not have ddr5, the price makes no sense permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children) Well, that's great, if the price is entirely made up by the Raspi foundation and not actually caused by the massively increased memory fab costs, it means the competition is going to release a much cheaper version any day now and steal the entire market from them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago Yes as soon as the invisible hand finishes jerking off billionaires, it will get to reducing prices for us permalink fedilink source parent [–] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago* Well... per the linked comment's thread... they did... by replacing the ddr chips on raspi, and raspi just did the usual walled garden corpo dystopian lockdown. For a full product with a well known name like raspi I guess it will be some years... permalink fedilink source parent [–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago I thought you were joking but even in Turkey the cheapest one is 300 dollars. I bought 2x16 for less than 100 couple years ago. Holy shit. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) Arduino has a 16GB DDR5 board designed to run local LLMs for $299. And it has 64GB of storage on board. Granted it’s not as flexible as a Pi, but it has DDR5 RAM, and a good bit of storage on board for cheaper. A 16GB Raspberry pi with DDR4 for $385 is just robbery. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago I think 299 was just preorder 399 is current. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago (5 children) Cheapest 16GB DDR5 stick I could go buy from the local computer parts store here in Finland is currently 363€, or $406. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Eximius@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children) The rpi does not have ddr5, the price makes no sense permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children) Well, that's great, if the price is entirely made up by the Raspi foundation and not actually caused by the massively increased memory fab costs, it means the competition is going to release a much cheaper version any day now and steal the entire market from them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago Yes as soon as the invisible hand finishes jerking off billionaires, it will get to reducing prices for us permalink fedilink source parent [–] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago* Well... per the linked comment's thread... they did... by replacing the ddr chips on raspi, and raspi just did the usual walled garden corpo dystopian lockdown. For a full product with a well known name like raspi I guess it will be some years... permalink fedilink source parent [–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago I thought you were joking but even in Turkey the cheapest one is 300 dollars. I bought 2x16 for less than 100 couple years ago. Holy shit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children) The rpi does not have ddr5, the price makes no sense permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children) Well, that's great, if the price is entirely made up by the Raspi foundation and not actually caused by the massively increased memory fab costs, it means the competition is going to release a much cheaper version any day now and steal the entire market from them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago Yes as soon as the invisible hand finishes jerking off billionaires, it will get to reducing prices for us permalink fedilink source parent [–] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago* Well... per the linked comment's thread... they did... by replacing the ddr chips on raspi, and raspi just did the usual walled garden corpo dystopian lockdown. For a full product with a well known name like raspi I guess it will be some years... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children) Well, that's great, if the price is entirely made up by the Raspi foundation and not actually caused by the massively increased memory fab costs, it means the competition is going to release a much cheaper version any day now and steal the entire market from them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago Yes as soon as the invisible hand finishes jerking off billionaires, it will get to reducing prices for us permalink fedilink source parent [–] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago* Well... per the linked comment's thread... they did... by replacing the ddr chips on raspi, and raspi just did the usual walled garden corpo dystopian lockdown. For a full product with a well known name like raspi I guess it will be some years... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago Yes as soon as the invisible hand finishes jerking off billionaires, it will get to reducing prices for us permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago* Well... per the linked comment's thread... they did... by replacing the ddr chips on raspi, and raspi just did the usual walled garden corpo dystopian lockdown. For a full product with a well known name like raspi I guess it will be some years... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago I thought you were joking but even in Turkey the cheapest one is 300 dollars. I bought 2x16 for less than 100 couple years ago. Holy shit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) Arduino has a 16GB DDR5 board designed to run local LLMs for $299. And it has 64GB of storage on board. Granted it’s not as flexible as a Pi, but it has DDR5 RAM, and a good bit of storage on board for cheaper. A 16GB Raspberry pi with DDR4 for $385 is just robbery. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago I think 299 was just preorder 399 is current. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago I think 299 was just preorder 399 is current. permalink fedilink source parent