Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

akman

Up ~50% about 2 months ago (4/2026)

ThrowawayR2

Even worse, continued RAM shortages and inflation might actually mean that will have been a good price in a year's time.

codingjoe

I hate this timeline: How is a Pi marginally cheaper than a Mac Mini?

ge96

That price I'd just buy an Optiplex or something I have 4 RPi servers in my house on 24/7 but yeah Funny different purpose but I bought a 2017 Pixelbook put Ubuntu on it, great machine it was $80

greenavocado

LMAO what a joke. N100 mini PCs are a hundred dollars less and vastly more capable aside from GPIO.

nekooooo

we've lost the plot. this is no longer a hobbyist computer.

havaloc

Come on, a one gigabyte Pi is under $50. There's no plot lost, it's just expensive RAM. 2gb is $75. That's where Pi plays well.

honeycrispy

This is really sad. Me and my girlfriend at the time watched all of our movies off of a Pi 1 and a USB hard drive when it came out. Those days are long gone.

hnlmorg

I think people commentating here are missing the point. The cost of that pi is for the 16 GB of RAM. Which in fairness, is a lot of RAM for a device of that type. You can still buy a Raspberry Pi on a budget if you don’t need that much memory. For example, the 2 GB model is $75.

bitcrshr

2 years ago I bought a Dell R630 for about this much with 128GB of RAM and 2 beefy xeons (for their gen, anyhow). Oh, how the times have changed.

jollyllama

"Don't you know there's a war on?"

Saris

I really struggle to see where this fits in to most use cases. The appeal of the Pi back in the first iterations was being a relatively cheap linux computer with GPIO.

xp84

This is hilarious considering you can easily[1] get a whole ARM laptop with 16GB for $425 all day, and that will also include a screen, keyboard, trackpad, battery, and storage. I first checked for Mac Minis and interestingly they are much closer to $650 for similar specs. And obviously if Intel is fine for your use case, either the N100 type of mini PC or, my preference, an off-lease HP, Dell, or Lenovo USFF PC, would be like half that for a very capable machine. [1] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=m1%20macbook%20air%2016...

steve_adams_86

So strange. I can probably sell my 4GB Pi 5 for about 40% more than I bought it for... 3 years ago. This isn't how computers are supposed to work, let alone Pis. I get what's happening, but it's strange to see it happening. Actually, could I sell it for ~10% less than someone would buy it new? Is there a market for used Pis? Maybe 30%, I don't know. That I can sell it for what I got it for at all is wild.

chrissnell

My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops that I got from BYU Surplus and added some RAM (before RAM price went totally bananas) and SSDs to. I spent less than the cost of one of these Pis to acquire all of them together. I later added a large machine that I used to use as a Linux desktop, with a GPU and 64GB RAM, which I use for generating OpenStreetMap tiles.

schappim

Some folks might have missed that memory prices on the whole are up [1] 90% since Q4. The memory used by the Pi 5 is up 700% [2]! Raspberry Pi are working the issue by releasing new memory variants that are cheaper[2]. Edit: You can still walk into a Microcenter and get Pi 5 16GB for US $289! 1. https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ 2. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-fo...

jadar

Holy cow. I know I'm not supposed to be surprised given the memory shortage, but that is insane level.

retired

I’m surprised to see those legacy USB ports on a board where space savings is important. Do they do it for backwards compatibility with older cases and housings? And am I correct to see that the USB-C only does power? How do you connect your pheripherals to this board?

schappim

Are Raspberry Pis (UK country of origin) exempt from the 10% baseline import tariff?

eahm

The $35 computer, for only $350!