I would argue that 400 is not a good value either, for that price you have to deal with occasionally broken file-system because caused by sd card and terrible keyboard. Not a good experience for beginner or a learning child.
People like to criticise x64 but getting a thin client from ebay and ESP32 GPIO board is probably the best bang for your buck.
No one buys raspberry pi to save money anymore, you buy it because you want to use Arm architecture and ability to use Android builds like LineageOS.
People like to criticise x64 but getting a thin client from ebay and ESP32 GPIO board is probably the best bang for your buck.
No one buys raspberry pi to save money anymore, you buy it because you want to use Arm architecture and ability to use Android builds like LineageOS.