I wish more companies took this approach. A current Amazon listing has the Pi 4 4gb for 170$ usd and Ebay similarly has 120$ for an open box. I've seen the 8gb ram frequently listed for over 200$. I recognize the shortage of new Pis but, at those prices, I don't understand the demand. I just found a used, tested, ebay listing for a Intel NUC Micro PC i5-7260U 2.2Ghz 8GB RAM 250GB SSD with Windows 10 for 160$. That's not a cherry picked example, similar specs are available across multiple listings at the same price +- 20$.<p>Are there situations outside a power draw limits where choosing a Pi makes more sense than a used NUC or business mini PC at a comparable price?
It's a shame the company decided to play dumb about what they did on social media. I don't want to patronize a company that is fine alienating a whole segment of their community, then pretending like it never happened.<p>The rest of the world is moving on, and I'm fine with that. I'm particularly excited to see products like the Orange Pi 5, with up to 32 gigs of memory and a fast eight core CPU, and the 16 gig model is available now, for less than the cost of an 8 gig Pi 4.
My hope is that delay adds up to much more IO expansion, and a smaller node meaning similar performance per watt (or better) in the next Pi revision.<p>Having the support of the Pi engineering team means a lot of small businesses and hobbyists who depend on certain bits of hardware actually working (and not just being features in a bullet list) can solve interesting problems more easily with a Pi than with other similar SBCs (many of which are now a bit faster).