> The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99.

Meanwhile, a refurbished corporate laptop with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD can be yours for $199 [1]

I'm sure there will still be people who want the Pi 5 but at these prices, I ain't one of them.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/327079631563

tempest_ 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those will dry up soon enough. Corporate laptop refreshes will be drawn out as they try and cost save on the increased price.

You also better hope the aliexpress dont figure out a way to get the RAM out of those things because they will start harvesting it for sure if there is money to made.

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tredre3 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Those will dry up soon enough.

We're talking about a pi replacement. The Pi 5 is slower than a 10yo laptop. That's gives us a very vast pool of used laptops.

> You also better hope the aliexpress dont figure out a way to get the RAM

That is a real worry and I can see used machines being gutted because selling DDR3/4/5 sticks is way easier and profitable than the whole machine. Adapters for SODIMM to regular DIMM are readily available and cheap, too.

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bombcar 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The EDU Neo is $500, too bad it’s not as versatile.

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Lord_Zero 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What is the edu neo

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Wingy 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The MacBook Neo’s education price of $499

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bombcar 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It blows my mind that a Pi is a significant portion of the cost of it.

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krallja 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And the Pi doesn't even come with a monitor, keyboard, speakers, or power supply!

	▲	MBCook 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’d bet a lot that the Neo has a better SSD in it too.

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tempest_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Pi isnt a loss leader for user acquisition nor do they get to enjoy Apples economy of scale. Apple can take a small loss on this and it will still be worth it if they retain the users in their ecosystem.

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zozbot234 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For most older laptops it's easy enough, you just open them up and take the RAM sticks out. There are SO-DIMM to DIMM adapters to fit a laptop memory stick in a DIMM socket.

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KPGv2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some people don't want trashy looking crap sitting around their family room in order to save $100