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May as well just buy a used laptop or desktop.

Too expensive for 16gb ram and sadly I don’t think it’s fully the pi’s fault. It just uses one of the most in demand chips right now

This is for 16GB. 1G is $45, 2G is $77.

My 1G pi three is still working fine.

It is now, just a shitty computer. It used to be a learning platform, but that price tag is not a learning price.

Jesus! I bought mine for $29.95 about 15 years ago.

Man I remember getting pissed I couldnt get a Pi4 for less than $50, paid $30 for my Pi3

Probably due to the shit AI. Seriously, AI is ruining society.

Who's the complete fucking idiot buying them at that price? Surely no one is that desperate.

Holy shit I spent like $75 on one of these with a case...

Might as well just pickup a mini pc.

I thought the Pi 5 was too expensive when it came out. This is just ridiculous. For most uses, a used PC, phone or tablet would be a much better choice. The only Pi I would even consider using is the Zero 2W, but they've been out of stock all year.

I just bought a refurbished HP EliteDesk for ~$400, and it’s much better than a pi in basically every metric except power draw. If those things are actually retailing at $385, it’s legitimately time to start treating the used/refurbished market as the new standard.

The only reason I've ever used Raspberry Pis is because they're cheap as hell. I think $45 is the most I've ever paid for one. Fuck this.

Ouch. I was hesitant at $160. This is just a no. I’ll buy one if prices ever become sane again.

Jeez, you can get a 10-yo desktop computer for less than that at Re-PC.

Unfortunate how bad the last 7 or so years have been market wise for the raspberry pi project. It feels like every time the hardware on one end gets cheaper, some other tech fad squeezes another component price up.

I don't get how they can justify this. I can get a proper mini PC with 16GB RAM and an 500GB NVME SSD for less than that.

Og launched at 35. Inflation be nuts

What the fuck.

I don’t understand the hate towards the makers of the Pi. Obviously they didn’t raise the price because they’re greedy.

Fuck Apple, but one thing you need to give them credit for is that over years they didn’t raise their prices once, they even lowered them for the iPhone at one point. And even they needed to raise the prices.

Blame the memory manufacturers for creating a fake shortage because they don’t want to ramp up their production capabilities because they like the high demand.

Yeeeeee eah, I priced one out a couple weeks ago from my preferred, local supplier and immediately left the site. It's a shame because I have some Pi3b and a 4 that I'd love to retire. Still functional, but pokey.

I'm betting tied of being priced-out of everything

Thank god I'm too ignorant and stupid to have learned how to build pcs - sad^/s^

I bought a Dell Optiplex at Goodwill for $20 that could probably run circles around that thing.

Wtf who would pay that much for a fuckin raspberry poo

The entire point of raspberry pi is that they're like $15 bucks for a bunch of cheap components. That's why in every picture there's no housing or anything. It's just a $0.10 pcb and a few dollars here and there of components from the same mass produced factory that's still producing the same usb ports and microcontrollers from old motherboards in 1999

Are you sure $385 isn't for like two hundred of them? For like students?

I switched to ESP32 chips for my hobbies and then the damn Europeans imposed tariffs on AliExpress &co and now even those cost double now.

At this point we can probably take an efficient full-blown PC in a mini format, and get something sensibly similar for less. It might even be possible to throw some GPIO USB in there if that's what you need.

Makes me extra angry that I got one the year it first released as an xmas gift from my parents... then a week later when i went looking for it my wife threw it out because she assumed all the bags from the gifts were empty... I never got a new one and still bitter about that one.

So much for being cheap and for educational purposes.