[justin66]

What were you doing with those three boards that failed? I've got the feeling you meant total failure and we're not talking about SD card failures or broken connectors. Heavy use of GPIO?

> I'm sure they were reliable for you but you probably weren't trying to do anything serious with them either.

Of course it was serious. I was frowning the entire time.

> secondhand mini PCs for embedded systems development and testing professionally

I feel like I'm missing some key piece of context when people mention the humble dumpster origins of the PCs that keep coming up when comparisons with Pi are made. Like "we were trapped on an island the entire time," or "our company operates out of South Sudan, the poorest nation in the world," or something like that.