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Is he serious or just trolling?

(He has previous form for trolling/having a laugh)

He seems quite serious. He mentions he has 12 stacks of 4 each of the Rpi devices, and another 20 around the house.

The real reason for the shortages is revealed!

Hey now, before the pandemic, you could get as many Pi4s as you wanted. And if you were ok with the 2GB and/or 4GB version, they were usually selling at less than MSRP.

At the Microcenter near me, they kept stacks of them in a cabinet near the cash registers, and would offer them up at a discount when checking out.

Institutional buyer

Thanks.

That's a lot of devices. I've got six of the Model 4 Rpi and whilst they're fun to play with, they're not ideal in terms of their hardware and it's a pain trying to find a decent USB drive to boot them from to get decent performance (they'd be so much better with an M2 interface). The only one that I use regularly is one that I've got LibreElec installed on and running as a Kodi box.

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