When the first Raspberry Pi came out back in 2012 it was groundbreaking because it offered a usable little Linux machine with the proud boast of a $25 dollar price tag. Sure it wasn’t the fastest kid on the block, but there was almost nothing at that price which could do what it did. Three leap years later though it’s surrounded by a host of competitors with similar hardware, and its top-end model now costs several times that original list price.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/how-does-the-raspberry-pi-rack-up-against-a-mini-pc/