> ... and it seems that 1GB of storage would be enough for the RPi and would not necessarily be so expensive. Enough for what? A typical Raspbian install not t

> ... and it seems that 1GB of storage would be enough for the RPi and would not necessarily be so expensive. Enough for what? A typical Raspbian install not takes a bit more than 4GB. I don't think that the Lite version (no GUI or applications) would fit either. I'd suggest 8GB, if that's a convenient size. As flash density increases, more and more goes on a single chip and that's where production is going. Consider the price of SD cards or USB sticks. Below about 16 or 32GB they don't get much cheaper and I suspect is is for this reason. And IAC, the RPi foundation is working hard to keep the price of the board at $35US so adding something like this probably means something else would have to be eliminated.