Comment by glouwbug

13 hours ago

Looks like the RPI5 is like $200 in Canada now. We might have lost the plot

The Steam Deck price in Canada went up by something like 50% yesterday also - it's now over $1100 for the 512GB OLED, up from just under $700.

Yeah, we have. We decided the world's RAM production capability would be better suited for datacenters so we can cheat on our homework.

  • I always wanted to wrangle ~10 of these together and practice distributed computing for the price of ~$200. That was a 2014 dream. I guess instead someone else ran with all of Jensen's polygon drawers and Hynix's backlog. Que sera

    • Zero 2s can still hit that price, can't they? With much better CPUs than the 2014 dream.

      And if you're not worried about CPU you can get a pile of Pi Picos or ESP32s.

      Actually, considering that the original zero had a better CPU than 2014 Pis, I'm surprised you didn't get a 10 pack of those when they were extra cheap.