Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5
4 hours ago
- Raspberry Pi increased prices for 2GB variants of Pi 4 and Pi 5 by $12.50 due to rising memory costs over the past two years.
- Prices for 1GB variants of Pi 4 and Pi 5, and 2GB variants of Compute Module 4 and 5 remain unchanged.
- Customers are advised to choose appropriate models (e.g., Pi 3B/3A+/3B+) and avoid paying for unnecessary RAM, with optimization guidance available from the official magazine or via email.
- Buy only from Raspberry Pi Approved Resellers to avoid inflated pricing and counterfeit products; over 100 resellers worldwide exist.
- The company expects memory prices to eventually subside and plans to reverse the price increases when possible.
- A comment from a user in Mumbai seeks delivery updates for Pi Zero 2W; staff responds with an email offer for tracking.
- A user criticizes AI-driven demand for RAM/SSD/GPU price inflation, hoping for bubbles to burst for affordable tech.
- Another user requests a more optimized GUI for Pi Zero 2W with 512 MB or 1 GB RAM to reduce lag.