While it’s good that they have been ramping up production, their attitude towards consumers during the shortage is something that some users won’t forget, as well as them seemingly ignoring that they are an education charity.

At least the Pi CEO acknowledges this in the CES interview with Jeff Geerling, where he mentions that the company has been “burnt” from a customer perspective. While they do contribute a lot to mobile linux development (indirectly), I think most people here would probably prefer the company just focus on their original mission of getting an affordable, credit card sized computer into users’ hands… not scalpers and hardware developers’ warehouses.

Also, I personally don’t really want to support Broadcom seeing the horrible decisions they’ve been making recently - why would they buy VMWare, then proceed to drop ALL of their partners, and put a ton of their staff out of work??

It’s not about how many they can manufacture, it’s about how many they actually sell to consumers. I have given up trying to buy them. It’s just not worth the hassle.

Stop reposting this corporate press release. Fuck the Pi foundation, and frankly, fuck the tech “journalists” and YouTubers who shill and cover for their anti consumer backstabbing.

At publishing time, Raspberry Pi 4 boards were widely in stock at all the U.S. and UK outlets we checked. However, given that the Pi 5 models with 4GB and 8GB of RAM cost only $5 more than their Pi 4 equivalents, most individual makers would be right to prefer the new model.

However, companies that are using Pi 4 either within products or for enterprise use cases may want to buy more of the older board, because the Pi 5 isn’t a drop-in replacement. It requires new chassis, a higher-wattage power supply and (in most use cases) an active cooler.

Unless they drop the price significantly I’ll stick with used x86 minis until risc-v is more viable.

Adafruit had pi 5’s in stock a couple weeks ago and they didn’t sell out instantly. I could have ordered but decided I didn’t have an immediate use for it, so it could wait.

Pi Zero 2’s as of the same time were fairly easy to find. I don’t know about now. Those had been extremely scarce for a while.

Pi 4’s are now plentiful. But, Pi 400’s (4 with a keyboard more or less) have been fairly easy to get all along.

I’ve been hearing about this on a regular basis but between scalpers and damn things going to industry users we are left with exactly nothing, pumping up the price to unreasonable levels. Just get one of the compatible boards which have better hardware and plentiful supply.