I guess it depends on what a Pi 6 offers and we can only guess.What with the AI craze driving DRAM prices to absurd levels, I'm not sure a Pi6 would be a good idea in the near term.
PC prices are as likely to rise as Pi prices do so the cost ratio of equivalency should remain the same.
However I am not so sure. While most home PC users seem to get by with 4GB it appears twice as much is required by a Pi to be equivalent; Pi 500 having 8GB, 500+ having 16GB, so Pi prices rise more than the equivalent PC price. The Pi 400 has 4GB but it's been said by some that it doesn't have the needed performance of a 5 to be a satisfactory equivalent.
Maybe that's not true and one doesn't need performance and memory to have a suitable PC equivalent experience but I can't see that going down well with any business trying to sell top end and most profitable devices.
I actually expect Pi and PC sales to fall off until this AI nonsense implodes with more home users looking at what second hand "good enough" PC deals are available. And I don't expect the implosion to happen any time soon, expect hype, fear of missing out, it becoming too big to fail, will keep this nonsense going for quite some time.
Maybe Raspberry Pi will temporarily drop out of the 'home PC' market, concentrate on top-end OEM offerings and lower-spec maker offerings ?
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Mon Feb 02, 2026 9:29 pm