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Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] 19 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Boards with single memory chips are hit the hardest. When you increase the memory you have to go with a much denser individual chip and the denser the chip the more expensive it is.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

    Couldn’t they have made the board a bit bigger? Even throwing in older ram would have been a win if it meant keeping prices down and total ram size.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I think moving away from the standard board size would kinda defeat the purpose. All the projects designed to fit the Pi formfactor would be useless. They'd have to design a whole new line, and have none of the ecosystem they've built to support it.

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