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Have we really got a replacement though? A £200 N100 mini PC is not in the same ballpark of disposability as a £40 board.
The thing is, they're not £40 any more (at least, the 5 isn't). A brief check here, puts the 4GB at £59, and the 8GB at £79.
Hopefully, they'll continue to make the previous models at a reasonable price.
I mean it was never that anyway, once you'd bought a power supply for it and a case.
I think they're at least powered by USB-C now, so people probably have that already, while the Pi3 wasn't quite within spec for regular micro USB so needed a custom power supply.
It's funny, I remember hitting issues with my pi3 running homeassistant with lots of dongles.
Eventually I worked out that the random reboots were down to power draw.
Power fickleness varies across every pi we’ve looked that. They need clean and steady or you can have some wild results.
They need proprietary 25w 5V5A chargers. It does not work with all USB C.
There are now plenty of companies making single-board computers. There are even ones based on Rockchip that run almost entirely on free software. The only things RPi had going for it were brand recognition and software support.