Will sign for beer.There is a "What product would you like to see?" thread running atI've variously configured RPI 3, 4 and 5 running a variety of workloads in my home 'computer lab'.
I understand the fundamental's of, e.g., https://www.raspberrypi.com/about/.
It would however be a wonderful thing if there was an 'enthusiast option' that actually matches the "...We're on a mission to put high-performance,..." option that was "...(a little less) low-cost...".
Still within the single-board and modular computers legacy of RPI but something that was clearly '2nd level' from the RPI mainstream offering such things as 8+ core, higher clock speeds with larger 16/32GB (and more) ram that clearly worked in the lower-end Intel/AMD processing capacity configuration options.
This would maintain the low-power ARM feature while realizing a more low-end 'server' capacity at a price point below those Intel/AMD options but still being single board system-on-a-chip consistent with the current RPI while providing peripheral capacities competitively so full speed Ethernet, USB, etc could be used. The current RPI 5 w/ 16GB Ram is pushing the $125+ price range so an enthusiast option would probably cost just a but more reflecting the 8-core (or more) costs.
There is a lot going on in the ARM space.
One can (at least) wish....
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and the present thread appears related to the same topic.
In my opinion enthusiast computing tends to get confounded with Triple-A gaming.
While increasing memory bandwidth and GPU performance might provide a better experience than adding cores, I think the important observation here is that there is a market niche for an enthusiast model.
I wonder if limited-edition red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple circuit boards with additional LEDs and a personally signed letter from one of the engineers would be attractive enough to command a premium price.
People buy gold-plated Nvidia 5090 Dhahab Edition GPUs
https://rog.asus.com/me-en/graphics-car ... b-edition/
Why not something similar for Pi enthusiasts?
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