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Pis have been overpriced for a long time now. They're often just expensive or more expensive than a mini pc. And the mini pc's are nearly as power efficient while being much more capable.
There's also the clones. If the community as a whole would stop being so brand-loyal and started reaching out into the world of these tiny computers that's often better, but at half the price, the Raspberry Pie would die an ugly death.
I still use raspberry pies. One for Klipper, one as a NAS and a few older models for testing. I'm satisfied with the Pi 4 2GB models. What alternatives are there that are at least as good?
I'm considering looking for old laptops with broken screens.
Suggested ebay search:
off lease thin client lot.
I'm not in the scene, but my SO has lots of them and only two of them are Raspberry. He has/had Orange Pie, Banana Pie, Nano Pie and many others.