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Couldn’t they have made the board a bit bigger? Even throwing in older ram would have been a win if it meant keeping prices down and total ram size.
I think moving away from the standard board size would kinda defeat the purpose. All the projects designed to fit the Pi formfactor would be useless. They'd have to design a whole new line, and have none of the ecosystem they've built to support it.
Then why did they have a model A and B? Couldn’t they have a C or BE (extended)
The board sizes remained pretty much the same though, a pi 5 can fit in lots of 3b project without huge changes.