The run on Raspberry Pi Zeros is temporary

Don't Panic

Article from Issue 183/2016
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The Raspberry Pi Zero sold out soon after it was released. maddog puts the situation into perspective.

Chill! I advised people who were upset because they could not get a Raspberry Pi Zero two days after it was announced. Despite the fact that tens of thousands of them had been produced, the supply (including all the MagPi magazines that included them in the issue) had been sold out.

Despair ran rampant on the Internet because (mostly) people who already had a Raspberry Pi A/B/B+ or Raspberry Pi 2 Model B could not get the very latest model.

Chill! I said and advised folks to remember the early days of the first Raspberry Pi when they spent hours trying to find some outlet that would have them in stock. After what seemed like forever, the manufacturing of the Raspberry Pis caught up with the demand, and people could get them whenever they wanted.

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