Man I just want to actually be able to buy a Pi 4 at non-scalper rates.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Theres a bunch available in the US/Canadathis week (all week, for the first time in a very long time). Not available everywhere, but the major Pi distributors have pretty much all had some - all the pi 4 models, too.
The drought has been easing up for a while and has been nearly over in Europe for several months. It looks like it may just about be over in NA too.
If you're in other countries I guess maybe it's still pretty dry.
Should be soon since the scalpers will be moving on to the 5's.
Looking forward to finding one in a store right around the time the RPi 6 is released.
I preordered on DigiKey.
Out of context, "a power button" is really funny to see advertised as a feature.
Hopefully they can address the stock issues but I'm not holding my breath. Would've also liked to see full-sized HDMI.
Was the 4 difficult to obtain when it was released? Cause the vendor I’m looking at (digi-key) claims to have about 5,000 in stock right now.
The 4 was impossible to find until, like, four months ago. I've been subscribed to six stock notification services for three years and only got my hands on a Pi 4 this year (and it's not even the model I wanted!). The pandemic was nuts, but things seem to have stabilised.
No actual PCIe or M.2 connector on the board, the M.2 hat won't be available at launch, and it appears to block the required(?) coolers from being fitted.
Why anyone bothers with Pi Foundation boards any longer is beyond me, there are so many better SBCs. The rockpro64 launched a full year before the Rpi4, back in 2018, and had PCIe, SATA cards, NICs, and a sweet NAS case to go with it. It could boot from USB drives right away, unlike the Rpi4, it didn't have power supply issues unlike the Rpi4, and it had eMMC support unlike the Rpi4, among many other benefits like a faster CPU, again having launched a full year prior.
I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the Pine64 I bought from their Kickstarter. The thing lasted 4 months before it stopped booting. I have no faith in any subsequent products.
Not required. And it might block the OFFICIAL cooling case, but it's a Raspberry Pi. There will be a hundred different custom cooling options soon.
I still can’t get over the tower cooler available for the Pi 4.
It's completely unnecessary and I love it
I think I've personally hit the point where PIs are like phones, there's nothing new that I actually need but a handful of things that looks handy. Never thought I'd be excited about (effectively) a bios battery.
Flawless victory! 🙌
This thing will make a blazing fast encrypted ZFS NAS with the 2 full-speed USB 3 ports and crypto extensions.
I don’t think Linux supports ZFS on ARM. It’s a bad idea without ECC RAM anyways.
It does and I used to briefly run a ZFS pool on a Pi 4 in 2019. I only abandoned it due to a nasty deadlock bug that I think got resolved sometime ago. Non-ECC RAM shouldn't be significantly worse than using say MDRAID or Btrfs with non-ECC RAM.
Too bad you'll never get one because we're only making 20 of them!
They’re commuting to servicing them til 2035 so I’m sure there will be a time when you can grab one.
In 2034