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What's the background here? Why is this model so popular? Are previous models a viable alternative for some? How long until production can catch up?

wnevets 5y ago
It seems like online scalping in general has skyrocketed since the pandemic started in 2020, the most famous probably being GPU cards.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  And the ubiquitous ticket scalper bots.
- chmod600 5y ago
  I was interested to hear more about why this model is so exciting. Any thoughts, or just faster/better?
  - HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
    I think it's just because it's the newest model and for many newest == best. Also, they're cheap, so the difference between a pi4 and a pi2b isn't that much $$$.
- noobermin 5y ago
  It's across the board, with GPUs, things like these pis, retro games and accessories even, it's pretty annoying. Thankfully necessities like TP and masks are no longer being scalped but it's still happening in electronics.
- sbierwagen 5y ago
  Scalping happens when the list price is lower than the market price. Nobody scalps shares of Alphabet, because the price floats. Merchants don't want to increase list prices, because they'll get yelled at, so instead they run out of stock and middlemen collect the arbitrage price. If you don't like it, tell stores to increase prices, and tell CNN to stop running stories about how awful greedy businessmen are causing inflation purely out of spite.
  - valdiorn 5y ago
    A short squeeze, like happened with gamestop, is basically scalping on stock markets. the market really, really needs those shares, but not enough are available, so price shoots up.
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qbasic_forever 5y ago
This is the first Pi with 4 or 8 gigabytes of memory, and the ability to boot off a USB drive natively (like a SSD). It can easily replace a big desktop computer with a tiny ~$50 board. It is not a slow and semi-unreliable little computer like the previous models (Raspberry Pi 3 and below). The Pi 3 only has 1GB of memory and is pretty much unusable for modern desktop use (especially browsing the web today). In addition with only a micro SD card as primary storage it's super slow and prone to brick itself if you aren't careful about powering it up and down cleanly.

wnevets 5y ago

It seems like online scalping in general has skyrocketed since the pandemic started in 2020, the most famous probably being GPU cards.

stjohnswarts 5y ago
And the ubiquitous ticket scalper bots.
chmod600 5y ago
I was interested to hear more about why this model is so exciting. Any thoughts, or just faster/better?
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
  I think it's just because it's the newest model and for many newest == best. Also, they're cheap, so the difference between a pi4 and a pi2b isn't that much $$$.
noobermin 5y ago
It's across the board, with GPUs, things like these pis, retro games and accessories even, it's pretty annoying. Thankfully necessities like TP and masks are no longer being scalped but it's still happening in electronics.
sbierwagen 5y ago
Scalping happens when the list price is lower than the market price. Nobody scalps shares of Alphabet, because the price floats. Merchants don't want to increase list prices, because they'll get yelled at, so instead they run out of stock and middlemen collect the arbitrage price. If you don't like it, tell stores to increase prices, and tell CNN to stop running stories about how awful greedy businessmen are causing inflation purely out of spite.
- valdiorn 5y ago
  A short squeeze, like happened with gamestop, is basically scalping on stock markets. the market really, really needs those shares, but not enough are available, so price shoots up.

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qbasic_forever 5y ago

This is the first Pi with 4 or 8 gigabytes of memory, and the ability to boot off a USB drive natively (like a SSD). It can easily replace a big desktop computer with a tiny ~$50 board. It is not a slow and semi-unreliable little computer like the previous models (Raspberry Pi 3 and below). The Pi 3 only has 1GB of memory and is pretty much unusable for modern desktop use (especially browsing the web today). In addition with only a micro SD card as primary storage it's super slow and prone to brick itself if you aren't careful about powering it up and down cleanly.