When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385

Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by aucisson_masque on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:46PM (#50433388)

I needed a new hole lab, had a pi 4 before but not enough ram so naturally I go and shop for a new raspberry but their price are absolutely insane.

I know that ram is expensive but it doesn’t nearly explain these pricing.

For less than a raspberry price, I got a full mini pc with 16gb ram, 512gb ssd and it got a much more powerful x64 amd chipset inside.

This company should be out of business.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by kbar13 on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:54PM (#50433482)

raspberry pi is a very specialized piece of hardware. pis were used for "homelab" aka pure compute purely bc of price previously. the software support wasn't even that good. the main reason to get a pi is to have a linux environment, with GPIO, in a small form factor, and decent open source software support.

for stuff like running vms or other pure compute homelabs, folks should stop using raspberry pis, and just go the used pc route

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