I stopped reaching for Raspberry Pi when the $60 board hit $95
For years, Raspberry Pi occupied a very specific spot in my brain. It was the board I reached for when I wanted a project to feel open-ended, a little scrappy, and still powerful enough to run a full operating system. That bargain started to wobble when the Raspberry Pi 5 arrived at $60 for 4GB and $80 for 8GB, which was already a noticeable shift from the old story people told about the Pi as a cheap default computer. By the time of this writing, the situation had gone from mildly annoying to impossible to ignore. Official price increases had pushed the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB to $305, while even the 4GB and 8GB models keep climbing.
For years, Raspberry Pi occupied a very specific spot in my brain. It was the board I reached for when I wanted a project to feel open-ended, a little scrappy, and still powerful enough to run a full operating system. That bargain started to wobble when the Raspberry Pi 5 arrived at $60 for 4GB and $80 for 8GB, which was already a noticeable shift from the old story people told about the Pi as a cheap default computer. By the time of this writing, the situation had gone from mildly annoying to impossible to ignore. Official price increases had pushed the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB to $305, while even the 4GB and 8GB models keep climbing.
William Garcia
Boston
Boston
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