alt Hacker NewsDoes anyone mind explaining why the 2GB model only increased by 20% in price while the 16GB model nearly tripled in price?
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gbgarbeb • yesterday at 11:24 PM
The 16GB model has eight times more ram?
Does anyone mind explaining why the 2GB model only increased by 20% in price while the 16GB model nearly tripled in price?
The 16GB model has eight times more ram?
The main cost input is presumably ram. They are passing it through.
If everything on the board but the ram costs $30, and ram is going from $10/gb to $20/gb, then they have to change the price $50 -> $70 to break even on the 2gb board, and $190 -> $350 for the 16gb board.
In other words, the raspi is now priced like a stick of ram with a bonus computer attached because ram is massively more expensive than the rest of the computer.