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I used to get really excited about these (given a few pending projects that need a Pi), but they became so few and far between I just gave up on Raspberry Pi and started trying out the alternatives. I think I like the Orange Pi 5 the most. A little bit more expensive, but significantly faster and you can boot off of an ordinary SSD.

Some of these upcoming Intel efficiency-cores-only mini PCs are also intriguing.

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The real strength/popularity of the Raspberry Pi has come from its community and all the writing/video work that has been done for them.

That said, a lot of the alternative SBCs really pack a punch, and often can outperform the Raspberry Pi doing the same work. There are just fewer problems already solved for you. In some cases that doesn't really matter.

I haven't seen a single competitive SBC with a comparable stuff stack. It either needs constant updates by the vendor (as the RPi) or simply upstreamed open-source drivers.

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