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Fagafruit is generally a bit more expensive than others, Micro Center sometimes has these for $300 or so...but still. I know if you need a small powerful board you are beheld to market forces, but we're starting to approach more industrial options here, and this is totally out of hobby range. You'd be better off finding an older i5 with 16GB on a real x86 platform.

To top it all off, it still uses a shitty USB connector for power - 25W worth, and still does not have any kind of storage past that shitty uSD card.

https://archive.is/Vkj36

Fagafruit is generally a bit more expensive than others, Micro Center sometimes has these for $300 or so...but still. I know if you need a small powerful board you are beheld to market forces, but we're starting to approach more industrial options here, and this is totally out of hobby range. You'd be better off finding an older i5 with 16GB on a real x86 platform. To top it all off, it still uses a shitty USB connector for power - 25W worth, and still does not have any kind of storage past that shitty uSD card. https://archive.is/Vkj36
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[–] • 2 pts

I picked the story up from Hacker News, and all of the tards there were going on about how it's a specialized board for specialized uses. That may be true, but it's not really rated for industrial applications. I've built those systems and computing equipment has to survive environments that would kill a pi in short order.

One of my former employers considered it for their embedded product, but the lack of real storage onboard and the need for active cooling killed that.

[–] • 3 pts

I've worked with embedded systems that work in 120 degree F warehouses. Raspberry Pi is a bitch by comparison.

[–] • 1 pt

The last ones I dealt with operated near steam turbines.