The price has been cut by $10 and it's still in production

May 14, 2015 13:53 GMT  ·  By

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that the price of the original Raspberry Pi Model B+ has been cut, and it should now be found at $25 (€22).

The original Raspberry Pi Model B+ started a revolution because it provided enough hardware power to really make a difference. For the first time, users had enough power to use this extremely small device as a regular PC. The fact that the makers of this mini PC also emphasized it as a great teaching tool, especially for kids who wanted to learn how to program, was also a catalyst.

The foundation has just released Raspberry Pi 2, which is a much more powerful version that is selling for the same price. It was only natural that the price of the first generation would go down. The production of Raspberry Pi Model B+ hasn't stopped, and there is a still great demand for it. The mini PC can be used in numerous other projects that don't require all that much power. Not everyone needs the Raspberry Pi to install a distro on it.

Raspberry Pi Model B+ was a turning point

The Raspberry Pi Model B+ wasn't the first of its kind, but it was the first that provided great value for money, not to mention interconnectivity with other engineering boards that greatly extended the use of the mini PC.

"When we announced the Raspberry Pi 2 back in February, we said that we'd continue to support its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi Model B+. Since then, we’ve sold well over a million units of Raspberry Pi 2, but Model B+ has also continued to sell very well, despite also costing $35. A side effect of the production optimizations that allowed us to hit the $35 target price for Raspberry Pi 2 is that the Model B+ is now much cheaper to manufacture than it was when it was introduced. With this in mind, we've decided to drop its list price to $25," said Eben Upton, the founder of The Raspberry Pi Foundation.

From the looks of it, the Raspberry Pi Model B+ will remain in production as long as there will be a demand for it and that won't happen too soon.