Wow the foundation really hates the idea of putting reliable dependable storage on their device.

Like would it kill you to have an M2 slot?

They're gonna prioritise companies again and make it impossible for normal people to get it, right?

What annoys me about all these RPi articles is the praise for improved performance and all the projects you can do with it, etc. But you can't find the damn thing to purchase. It's always out of stock everywhere I look. So much so I have given up on it completely. There are other competitor products with lower price that are fully compatible or I'll just end up using old phone.

Wow, can't wait to not be able to buy one!

There are many small DIY computers on the market now, not just Raspberry Pi.

Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Asus Tinkerboard, ..

Those usually don't have delivery issues.

I haven't followed Raspberry Pi for years - when did they go from $25-35 to $100+?

This is great news... for business customers, as they're those are the only channels they'll be available through.

Well, unless you don't mind spending $200-$400 per unit to scalpers, who magically never seem to run out of stock.

I'm a little disappointed to not see AV1 decoding mentioned, since Broadcom has had one for years now.

Obviously I got a RPi4 just a couple months ago, after struggling for 2-3 years... Well, crap.

EDIT: at least the prices didn't seem to have increases significantly over the previous version.

So you're telling me Rpi's can finally emulate N64 games at full speed.

Can we get a usb-c port with data? And more power supply to the ports? I hate having to power hard disks with a separate cable.

I really wish they would have stuck 32/64GB storage or something like that on it, so the OS could boot without external reliance. Give the Pi0 8GB and it would be perfect.

I boot my Pi4 and Pi3 from SSD and it’s great but it’s clunky with the SSD and adapter.

I’m seriously considering a N100/N305 mini pc instead of my Pi.

So for how much :-D

I'd take a cheap slow one any day...

Not bumping the PCIe lanes to 4-8 is disappointing. So is now requiring active cooling, not using USB-C for the USB3 ports, and PoE being unusable without a hat.

It’s probably time to add a higher end “pro” line to let the “education” line focus on power efficiency, tiny form factors, and low cost.

Also, did they fire the cop they hired?

What I'd like to see is something like an updated and optimised ~pi3-spec device with EMMC or an m.2 sata slot. Yes I know I can put a pi zero2 into a breakout board, but they connect via USB and that severely limits performance.

I recently decommissioned my pis (2x 3b and 1x 4b) and replaced them all with a single intel n95 based NUC (which cost less than a single pi4 8gb at the time) and I didn't need any real gpio other than some serial ports, but if the right device came along with reliable storage I'd consider moving back to pis.