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sgu999

Out of curiosity, what are you doing with these?

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As someone who has worked with dozens:

I worked with high-power EV chargers.

Each system had 4 RPi 4s. (Some due to 3rd-party hardware, some powering touch displays).

The main system started out with 4GB, but 8GB was more convenient for developing.

The systems generated a massive amount of metrics that got buffered in memory.

8GB memory is convenient when your only alternatives are SD-card and EEPROM.

Sounds like this is a use case where none of size, power & cost matters very much, and faster development is desired. It may even prefer "heavier" libraries if it makes development easier. Which is completely different from most consumer devices and many commercial devices.

Well, if that's true, have to agree raspberry pi may be better than esp32.

running an electron app (and the x server and more) in a container

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