DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
www.jeffgeerling.com
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist 'high end SBC' market (4/8/16 GB models in the current generation), which I'll embed below: But if you'd like the tl;dr:
    • billwashere@lemmy.world
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      9·
      2 months ago

      I’m pretty sure these companies are paying attention to RAM and CPU costs and second guessing the value in adding them to these appliances. I don’t need a source. It’s common sense.

      • eletes@sh.itjust.works
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        15·
        2 months ago

        While it may be common sense, I could also see “hey just jack up the price, we need the data points for advertising/data brokers”

              • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
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                21·
                2 months ago

                Loans in form of credit. A vast proportion of adults in developed nations are in personal debt, ignore home, education and car loans

                People have not been taught how to be adults, manage a budget and they end up trading their future financial security for momentary gains