| > I agree with the rest but Pi Zero W is a specific machine with 512 MB RAM: I thought they came in different variants - my meat-based LLM must have hallucinated it. > It's also the one everyone can buy online for $19, not Pi Zero 2 W (always out of stock) I get the impression that they don't actively manufacture Pi Zero W anymore and it's all old stock. Rapid for example say they have an availability of 761 (at time of writing) [1], but are those all within Rapid's control, or what is reported at Raspberry Pi's remaining stock? If you sell 1k printer units, can you put a Pi Zero W in all of them? Compute modules are probably a bit more reliable and there is some capability with other modules, specifically the DDR2 form factor ones [2] (which is my favorite form factor). For example, ClockWork sold their own compatible compute modules [3]. [1] https://www.rapidonline.com/raspberry-pi-sc0020-zero-w-singl... [2] https://www.rapidonline.com/raspberry-pi-compute-module-cm3-... [3] https://www.clockworkpi.com/shop |