In 2026, Pi is losing its footing among hobbyists. This memory fragmentation driven by marginal price gaps is strangely familiar. It’s straight from Apple and smartphone makers’ playbooks. Offer a memory-constrained base model and create calculated price gaps to make upgrades feel smart. So you might consider doubling the memory by not spending too much. Now, Raspberry Pi takes a leaf from the very margin-maximizing playbook to bring memory tiers. It’s surprising that ‘computing for everyone’ is mimicking Apple's premium positioning. With the April 2026 price increase, the 4GB Pi 4 model costs
I stopped recommending the 3GB Raspberry Pi 4, and here's why…Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. For most people, those are "AI," and everything else is background noise. That was probably fair a year ago. It isn't anymore. The open-weight space has…
…The emulator is available for free on Windows/Mac, $4 on Android; it includes save states, cheats, fast-forward/rewind, and netplay is coming. I have fond memories of watching my older…
…Sign in to your XDA account GPUs have ballooned in price over the last decade, with the cost of a flagship Nvidia card increasing by more than double, and segmentation causing wide…
…Keep in mind, I’m talking about the core chatbot interface for desktop and web (simply called Claude and Claude.ai, respectively) not Claude Code. Related I set up Claude Code the…
…The Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 can do light gaming, coding, AI, and even productivity. Related 5 Raspberry Pi projects for gamers Put your gaming and tinkering skills to the test with…
…The wafers used in the production of HBM memory for AI are made from the same silicon that would otherwise be used for GDDR7, DDR5, and so on. The planned Super lineup…
…more cores, wider memory buses and faster VRAM. So, when ray tracing entered the conversation, Nvidia had to introduce DLSS to make ray-traced graphics playable. Real-time AI upscaling internally rendered…
…It's a constant trade-off between quality and speed, and it's one that I've largely accepted as the cost of keeping my inference local. Google's new Gemma 4…
…that the cost makes sense…on paper at least. But I also have Gemini open half the time, Qwen running locally almost every day, and a couple of other AI tools in…
…If you try to run a Q4 or Q8 mmproj, it produces garbage output for both images and audio. BF16 costs you more memory, but on a phone with 16GB, it doesn…