What’s Wrong with the Raspberry Pi

Blogs, shields and extensions, people sharing their projects, tons of libraries… the Raspberry Pi was the first one to achieve all that and to this day a thriving community is the biggest reason why I would understand people getting a Pi over other boards. For this same reason, even when last year they finally provided a model with Gigabit Ethernet, the real network performance of the device is nowhere close to real Gigabit performance, but around 40MB/s maximum in sheer networking speed, 20MB/s maximum if we are transfering to a USB device. When the Raspberry Pi starts booting the CPU is completely disconnected (technically in reset state) and the GPU is the one that starts the system.

Source: ownyourbits.com