▲ 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
[–] 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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