The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price range...
35 dollars will buy you an oldish x86 beige box that will absolutely flat out murder a Raspberry Pi performance-wise. Cheap, fast hardware is not a problem anymore.
35 dollars will buy you an oldish x86 beige box that will absolutely flat out murder a Raspberry Pi performance-wise. Cheap, fast hardware is not a problem anymore.