[p0w3n3d]

I would never undestand this phenomenon, 350$ is a price you can buy a Ryzen mini PC instead...

In my country there is virtually no possibility to buy the newest PI, and even if it is possible, it won't cost the main price, but always more...

[a5c11]

Raspberries are cool for tinkering with hardware, learning how to write kernel drivers etc. But I think this is how maybe 30% of Raspberries are used. People do uncanny things to turn those boards into something we already have on the market - mini PCs, and thin clients. For my home server, I replaced Raspberry Pi with a used HP T630 I bought for the quarter of the Pi's price, and that was a good decision.

Frequently used argument against mini PCs is lack of GPIO. There are adapters based on FT2232H. The drivers are lame or non-existent, though, so I wrote one by myself, so the chip appears in system as native GPIO port which makes it easier to use with various programs. "itachilab/ftdi-gpio" if someone is interested.

[moffkalast]

And the 8GB one is $200. For 70$ more you get the Jetson Orin Nano with comparable single core speed but with two more cores, LPDDR5 with 5x as much memory bandwidth, more IO, and an entire GPU.