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Pepperridge farm remembers when a Raspi was $25 and you could get a Zero for $5. I also remember it still being too expensive, so I bought a comperable OrangePi for $11 instead.
They’re out of stock at both Canakit and Vilros, but an original Pi Zero is still just $10 for the board.
Sure, that’s well beyond the inflation rate ($5 then would be about $6.89 now), but remember these are licensed resellers of official Pi products, so they have to mark them up at least a little to make a profit, especially now with tariffs affecting the imports. I wouldn’t call being marked up just over 30% all that insidious.
I’ve kinda come to expect in the last three decades I’ve been following this stuff that hardware has the tendency to both get better and cheaper as time goes on.
Like, RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either if you think selling an 8GB stick of DDR4 for $160 today fine, as that is also 10 year old hardware at double the launch price.
So it’s not that I expect being able to buy an old Raspi model for $25 or $5, I expect to be able to the buy a newer better one without having to pay up to six times as much.
It’s hilarious that those older models tend to be more expensive used than what they originally cost. Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?
Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?
I mean, yes. It sucks for sure, and is absolutely wrecking the consumer market… But it’s not like we can magically change it. Scarcity drives up prices, that has always been the case, and on top of that we have tariffs impacting a lot of these items too.
All I can do is hope these AI companies fail as hard as they seem to be set up to fail.
I haven’t, that’s the point.
If a Raspi going from $25 to $145, an increase of 5.8x is fine, and a Zero from a decade back being twice the price today, then surely when you go from $10/GB of DDR4 to new shiny modern DDR5, that increase of 5.8x is all fine too. Just buy that decade old DDR4 for double the launch price if you think it’s too expensive.
And from looking at DIMMprice, it’s still “only” around $25/GB, that’s a pure bargain right?
Obviously neither of them are fine and both situations are utterly outrageous.
Pepperridge farm remembers when a Raspi was $25 and you could get a Zero for $5. I also remember it still being too expensive, so I bought a comperable OrangePi for $11 instead.
Fuck. 25 to 50 for a pi is like the most that should be.
They’re out of stock at both Canakit and Vilros, but an original Pi Zero is still just $10 for the board.
Sure, that’s well beyond the inflation rate ($5 then would be about $6.89 now), but remember these are licensed resellers of official Pi products, so they have to mark them up at least a little to make a profit, especially now with tariffs affecting the imports. I wouldn’t call being marked up just over 30% all that insidious.
I’ve kinda come to expect in the last three decades I’ve been following this stuff that hardware has the tendency to both get better and cheaper as time goes on.
Like, RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either if you think selling an 8GB stick of DDR4 for $160 today fine, as that is also 10 year old hardware at double the launch price.
So it’s not that I expect being able to buy an old Raspi model for $25 or $5, I expect to be able to the buy a newer better one without having to pay up to six times as much.
It’s hilarious that those older models tend to be more expensive used than what they originally cost. Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?
I mean, yes. It sucks for sure, and is absolutely wrecking the consumer market… But it’s not like we can magically change it. Scarcity drives up prices, that has always been the case, and on top of that we have tariffs impacting a lot of these items too.
All I can do is hope these AI companies fail as hard as they seem to be set up to fail.
Uh… You’ve missed some news. https://www.dimmprice.com/
You uh missed some news https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
I haven’t, that’s the point.
If a Raspi going from $25 to $145, an increase of 5.8x is fine, and a Zero from a decade back being twice the price today, then surely when you go from $10/GB of DDR4 to new shiny modern DDR5, that increase of 5.8x is all fine too. Just buy that decade old DDR4 for double the launch price if you think it’s too expensive.
And from looking at DIMMprice, it’s still “only” around $25/GB, that’s a pure bargain right?
Obviously neither of them are fine and both situations are utterly outrageous.
Mr Jonathon Swift over here, it took me a moment to recognize your Proposal was Modest, given Poe’s Law.
Thanks, read too quickly after work and completely misunderstood.
To be fair they weren’t saying they think it’s fine, they were implying that I do. They are obviously aware of inflated prices.