I fully agree.
We built our app testing parcour with about 10 phones, 10 nfc simulators and a Raspberry to orchestrate the whole thing.
The Raspberrys USB ports sometimes did not work properly and we feared that we could quickly kill the SD card.
Additionally the processing power was not that great.
In the end we switched to an Intel N5000 notebook with a broken screen (working HDMI) that we had lying around (used price under 100€,in this condition maybe under 50€).
The system now has aN uptime of over 100 days and works much better.
The Raspberrys USB ports sometimes did not work properly and we feared that we could quickly kill the SD card. Additionally the processing power was not that great.
In the end we switched to an Intel N5000 notebook with a broken screen (working HDMI) that we had lying around (used price under 100€,in this condition maybe under 50€). The system now has aN uptime of over 100 days and works much better.