When did Raspberry Pi get so expensive?
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When did Raspberry Pi get so expensive?
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Re: When did Raspberry Pi get so expensive?
#2It started to get expensive when they started to not be able to meet demand... I sold my gen 1 for what I paid for it many years ago...
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#3Pi has its own niche where it's great... and "Desktop" is not it.
The moment you feel you don't care about power consumption, but you do need NVMe SSD and 8GB of RAM, it's time to look for something else.. NUCs are a great example and if you buy them used on eBay they can be even cheaper.
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#4If you need a daughterboard and an SSD to get away from SD cards then yeah it's going to get expensive. Maybe find an SBC family that likes to use eMMC?
Gen 1 was also an overstocked orphaned SoC. It was literally a freebie from Broadcom. People got spoiled.
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#5Inflation + Demand?
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#6If you need a computer it’s better to use a mini pc form factor from a major vendor that benefits from economies of scale. NUC’s aren’t great value. You can get used HP and Dell stuff used from IT recyclers for ~$150 that do circles around the Pi in terms of performance.
I never understood the fascination with the Pi. Especially with all the options today.
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#7Are there cheaper boards that mimic the pi available?
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#8I’ll take and invest in anything manufactured and designed back at the ole Blighty. Worthy investment into a more self reliant future
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#9Personally, I’m loving my Pi 5. It is just in the sweet spot, enough performance for what I need it to do, it’s portable, very low energy usage, it runs off an SD card so it’s very easy to re-image or swap images.
The NUC device is a desktop computer. If you want a desktop then buy a desktop, that’s not what a Pi is for (despite some unwise marketing to the contrary).
If the v5 is too expensive then pick up a v4, they are bound to get cheaper as v5 availability increases.
Re: When did Raspberry Pi get so expensive?
#10If you need a computer it’s better to use a mini pc form factor from a major vendor that benefits from economies of scale. NUC’s aren’t great value. You can get used HP and Dell stuff used from IT recyclers for ~$150 that do circles around the Pi in terms of performance. I never understood the fascination with the Pi. Especially with all the options today.
Uh, ARM, low power, and GPIO. The fascination is in its applications beyond a desktop computer. It was dirt-cheap for what it did and enabled.