Good time to mention: Depending on what you want, you don’t actually want a Pi. Reasons to want one are a) the GPIO port and b) the form factor. Maybe c) low power draw under load. Maybe there are some other niche usecases that I can’t think of, but those are the main ones. Passively cooled, older, low power intel chips have far more power and better interfaces for the same price and about the same idle power draw. The cases end up being a bit bigger, but that’s the main disadvantage.