The new orange pi is way faster. I'm really excited to see how Qualcomm Oryon turns out. M1 and m2 are already here and awesome if you swing that way. If you just dislike the rpi in particular, I get it. If you are anti arm desktops and servers, the future is now old man.
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I like old used workstations with 10x compute power for 90% less $$