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The Raspberry Pi ecosystem makes the device worthless as soon as you factor in commodity parts that have been marked up far beyond their generic counterparts. And then worst, all of the vendors selling generics targeting Raspberry Pi devices mark those up too, so it's wash. You're better off buying the official accessories because there's no benefit to buying the generics to save money.

After everything is accounted for, if you don't need access to GPIO, Intel chips and all their related hardware are a better value.

So Raspberry Pi beyond the model 4 isn't competitive anymore unless you factor in this specific requirement.



I love my Beelink mini PCs but there’s a use case for going raspberry pi and that’s power draw. Way easier to build a system that’s solar or battery powered.




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