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Check out the “obsolescence statement” on the Raspberry Pi product pages. The 3B+ will remain in production until at least 2028 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-... and the 4 until at least 2031 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/...
Remain in production could mean like the nano 2 W which is manufactured in such small numbers it’s never in stock.
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My gripe is that the original Pi cost $35 at launch and while they have made a better Pi...They have not made a Pi at that price ever again, even accounting for Inflation. Furthermore, increased power consumption and features have added big price jumps to the required Accessories. Now you need miniHDMI adapters rather than more common HDMI, you need cooling, you need more expensive power adapters. a fully set up Pi 1…
Do the modern Pi Zeros not compete with the original Pi at a stupid low price?
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Yeah, I can live with images per architecture; the problem is needing an image specifically for the pi. I want the same thing as we get on x86; sure, there are separate images for i686 and x86_64, but there's not one image for Dell and one for HP and one for Lenovo and...
Well, now that the latest rPi is on the latest ARM arch, it might be possible for future rPis, unless ARM goes and changes the arch around in an incompatible way.
Damn, even Raspberry Pi removed the headphones jack!
anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?
I see that the PR against the Raspberry Pi linux repo is out [0]. Interestingly they are introducing a BCM2712 defconfig with a 64k default page size. From the device tree [1] it looks like they've rolled their own IOMMU rather than using ARM's SMMU which is annoying. [0] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/5618 [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/9c75e5408c01cb7c65...
I hope they’ll reiterate the computer in keyboard form factor (pi 400). My son is 6 and is learning to read and the pi 400 looks like a perfect first computer.
The Pi400 would be a perfect first computer. It runs faster than the Pi4 and doesn't get hot due to the colossal copper heat spreader inside it. It really is a BBC B modern equivalent.
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times are tough, right?
There's always RISC-V.
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The point here is likely to pull the rug out from under scalpers' feet. With the Raspberry Pi 5 out in two weeks, all the held-back inventory of older models will be dumped, prices will plummet, availability will become a non-issue. In that sense it's a wise move.
On a similar note, I'm genuinely curious as to why Pi chose the "authorized reseller" model instead of selling them directly.
Having trusted local resellers is a much more scalable way to sell to local markets.
Damn, even Raspberry Pi removed the headphones jack!
To be fair, the analog output of the RPi delivers a crappy low-pass filtered 11-bit PWM signal. Even the cheapest USB audio adapter will give you a better signal. (Personally, I have been quite happy with https://www.pollin.at/p/logilink-usb-2-0-5-1-audiocontroller... )
With Raspberry Pi's specifically, although I have used the headphones jack to connect speakers, I generally use either HDMI audio, or else I just don't have any audio connected.
