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- No. With that price, it kinda defeats its original purpose of being a cheap micropc to tinker with. - They have plenty of cheaper models. - At that point, just buy a steamdeck, take out the pcb and you already have a much better sbc. Only half joking here, because 120€ really is a joke. I cant even imagine the profit margines they have on these things now. 
 
 
 - This is ridiculous. The prices of all the Raspberry Pis need to be cut by about half. - The original cost $30 when it came out - It also only had 512MB of RAM… 
 
 
- I don’t understand why people get their knickers in a twist over those prices. The Pi5 is still pretty cheap for a fully functional computer. Plus, they have a wide variety of products at different price points, so if that one’s too expensive for you, get something else. - Schools and youth programs that need to buy 20 at a time and had their budgets cut because the football team wanted new uniforms. - Buy the 4 GB model. Or the Pi4. There’s something for everyone. 
 
 
- Businesses who have a Raspberry Pi built into the BOM of an existing system design will continue to pay. 
- I’ll wait for the 16G model of the RPi500 with an M.2 slot… 
- People who haven’t heard of ESP32s - ESP32s - Can it run Crysis? - slowly hahaha 
 
- Unfortunately you can’t run home assistant on an esp32. I’m using an old laptop for it, waiting for a minipc with better specs than it to be under $50 before buying. - Fair point, but I see a whole category of things with a RP slapped on it that a simple microcontroller could do (don’t get me wrong, its great people are innovating, it’s just a little overkill). 
 
 
- People whose workload doesn’t fit in 8GB. Unbelievably stupid article. - “It’s only $20 away from a x86_64 SBC with 8GB of RAM” - so? if, say, an eval of nixpkgs takes 14GB, it takes 14GB 
- 120 bucks will get you a used optiplex with power cord. Byo ram/ssd but still. 





